but -- as far as i
know -- his gift was spurned, for some
bizarre reason i'll never be able to grasp.

I don't know why it was spurned, but I do know that he's posted a lot of stuff that is still in copyright and sooner or later lawyers are going to eat his lunch. As long as nobody could figure out who owned the copyright, that was okay, but now that courts have ruled on the owner, it's another matter.

 

Anne