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Some of my colleagues and I have been assembling a set of TeX'd course
notes (for a specialized geophysical course the nature of which is not
important here) and we have been discussing ways to make these notes
freely available.  Our current inclination is to put a PostScript
edition in the public domain and make it available at a geophysical
archive site.

We haven't really given any thought to such questions as:
	-	is it OK for others to issue modified copies?
	-	is it OK for others to use the notes as poart of a commercial venture?
	-	will the notes be updated?  by whom?
etc.  Most of these issues are purely formal (for example, no one will ever
make a penny from these notes or any descendant thereof).

It seems to me that in some ways this is a GNU-style book, at least
in the sense of its intentions.  (I appreciate that GNU products
are specifically not public domain.)  Are there existing examples of
free bookware?  Has there been any significant public discussion of the
issues involved?

I'd certainly be interested in hearing any thoughts on this topic.
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