Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration.
--- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright terms mean that we won't see a large influx of public domain computer programming material for a while.
Many FSF books are copylefted.
Indeed, but this is a very different thing from being public domain. -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
--- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright terms mean that we won't
see a
large influx of public domain computer programming material for a while.
Many FSF books are copylefted.
Indeed, but this is a very different thing from being public domain.
We distribute a lot of books that are not PD. Practically copyleft is the same as if the author grants PG the right to distribute the book. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
--- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright terms mean that we won't see a large influx of public domain computer programming material for a while.
Many FSF books are copylefted.
Indeed, but this is a very different thing from being public domain.
We need copyrighted books, because in a hundred years, when their copyright has run out, we will be the only ones still publishing them. PG is not just a library, it is also an archive. -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl
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Marcello Perathoner