On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Greg Newby wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:34:06PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
Just found the following link on google. Is this permitted? I was under the impression that the DVD was not supposed to be sold.
Resale for the DVD (unlike the CD) is not explicitly prohibited.
He needs to pay trademark royalties, however, and to my knowledge has not done so.
Sometimes Michael likes to go after such trademark infringers.
So, what is this CD and DVD thing? I have never ended up to such issues with GNU software. What one should do when releasing PG etexts on CDs or DVDs? Pay royalties? How much? Why the permission to use PG trademark is not cost-free? Are people being greedy here? Would it be enough to remove every reference to Project Gutenberg? Yet again: Are the PG etexts free (in GNU like sense) or public domain? Who has copyrights to the etexts in the PG archives? I have a solution: Lets move all etexts to my project Truly Free Etexts. Then everyone can do anything with them, burn to CDs and DVDs and sell and re-sell them. The etexts would last forever and nobody can take the joy away -- this is what happens with GNU software. Of course, people should check twice to where contribute etexts. Apparently PG has not been the best place in terms of freedom. (Websites have re-copyrighted the PG etexts, and PG persons have started their own business, PG2, with other's contributions.) I would like to remind that it is great gift that old texts goes to public domain. Lets not abuse this gift. Keep them in public domain and spread the good word. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software