dave said:
*If* this happens I wonder how many volunteers DP will lose.
well, i would guess an agreement has _already_ been forged, or else the d.p. name wouldn't have been used. but i don't see that it should cause the loss of many volunteers, because the aim remains to get e-texts out there. after all, anyone can take the e-texts from project gutenberg and do _whatever_they_want_ with them, just as long as they don't use the name of project gutenberg, right? that's what the public domain is all about. and yes, it is kind of sleazy to use public-domain content as the "free samples" to bring people through the door for your commercial content, but what would we do about that? hell, some of these guys sell the public-domain stuff as well! (and if they can sell what we give away, more power to 'em.) i think i've made it perfectly clear that i'm not a fan of either rothman or noring, and i have long observed they have been trying to get their mitts on project gutenberg, so this doesn't surprise me from their end, but it's curious d.p. played along. -bowerbird