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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Good question. I suspect that it wouldn't take much to get a new copyright on the ebook. Just adding a short foreword should be enough. Not that that would prevent other people extracting the text itself and reusing it, but it would prevent republication of the complete ebook. Whether adding a cover is enough originality, who knows?
So the safest behaviour, as well as the politest, is just direct people here, rather then re-hosting the files.
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Since my ideal is GPL I think that what is distributed anywhere should be distributed with the same conditions as the sources used to put it together.
But regardless of how things are distributed an electronic copy should always contain information about how it can be redistributed. Otherwise we will get unnecessary problem similar to orphaned works when people in 20 years time want to use a copy they have available.