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Originally Posted by H-P
Even if a website say " do what you want with the content ", my point of view is that resseiling this work is illegal practice in business circle that unfair competition again others companies.
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Except it's not illegal. You clearly think it should be but that's another matter.
And the "volunteers" did this know the copyright status of the work - i.e. they knew it could be sold. And any companies selling editions of PD works know this - they know they are competing against freely available versions on the internet. They went into that business anyway. They presumably believe they can add value that people will find worth paying for. Also they are just as free to take the work of the volunteers and use it as anyone else so the playing field is actually more level that a lot of markets.