alt Hacker Newslegal terms question here also -- several major world economies are operating under very different rules regarding datasets and publication rights. I am in the USA / California.. will there be terms for me, given that I am not a giant deep-pockets FAANG, just a book person ? commercial use terms for "small business" scale ?
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dessimus • yesterday at 9:32 PM
It's been on Project Gutenburg for over 20 years: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13600
They only release books that are in the public domain.
TremendousJudge • yesterday at 6:10 PM
I guess such an old edition is in the public domain
The 1911 text itself is public domain, so anyone is free to use it.
What I’ve built here is a structured edition — the parsing, reconstruction, linking, indexing, etc. I haven’t published a formal license for that yet.
For casual or small-scale use there’s no issue at all. For bulk use (e.g. dataset / training / redistribution), I’d prefer people get in touch so I can figure out a sensible way to support that.