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Originally Posted by Lemurion
There's also the fact that he might well take issue with someone taking his efforts and claiming them as their own.
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Isn't he implicitly doing just that by not attributing his books to Project Gutenberg, wherefrom most he probably sourced? Not that PG's terms governing use of the PG name and trademark permits him to do so...
Should he then really dislike something he himself is arguably guilty of, purely because the venture is commercial (thereby probably likely to reach a wider audience who shall benefit from both Harry's and the entrepreneur's efforts, assuming the pricing is right)?
If some morally bankrupt jackass starts selling eBooks uploaded by Harry as is, by all means let him receive the moral condemnation of all. But not because he made commercial use of a Public Domain text that Harry worked on (along with lots of other people Harry himself isn't even acknowledging and may not even know about), but because the jackass is trying to defraud people.
- Ahi