Of course, GPL can only apply to works still in copyright.
That's a very good point about including terms in electronic copies. An excellent idea.
Perhaps a recommended paragraph of distribution terms for public domain ebooks formatted for upload at Mobileread would be useful. I'm not sure the best way to get one written and agreed though. And it obviously would be voluntary to use it.
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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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