[free-sklyarov] _Alice_ read aloud

[Jon O .]

On 25-Aug-2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:31:20PM -0700, Jon O . (jono at microshaft.org) wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I think you've got something here...
> > 
> > Furthermore, The Project Gutenberg License states:
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> This is a misleading abridgment of the Project Gutenberg license.
> 
> Under the forward material to Alice, is the section "DISTRIBUTION UNDER
> "PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm":
> 
>     You may distribute copies of this etext electronically, or by disk,
>     book or any other medium IF YOU EITHER DELETE THIS "SMALL PRINT!"
>     AND ALL OTHER REFERENCES TO PROJECT GUTENBERG, OR:
> 
> (emphasis added)
> 
> Note that the emphasized text, dropped in Jon O's post, allows for
> unrestricted use of the text if the Project Gutenberg additions are
> removed.  The remaining text is public domain (specified earlier in the
> preferatory text), and hence, its use is unrestricted.
> 
> The following terms (quoted partially in Jon O.'s post) refer to terms
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> 
> 

I must be missing something here, the Alice version we are discussing
did not remove "ALL OTHER REFERENCES TO PROJECT GUTENBERG" and therefore
is subject to the "OR" which contains the three paragraphs containing
stipulations. And as I said, people interested should review the 
entire license and comment on it and it's relation to this Alice ebook.