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by njs12345 5684 days ago
The license applies only if you use the PG trademark(for stuff in the public domain):

'A Project Gutenberg ebook is made out of two parts: the public domain book and the non public domain Project Gutenberg trademark and license. If you strip the Project Gutenberg license and all references to Project Gutenberg from the ebook, you are left with a public domain ebook. You can do anything you want with that. '
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ez77 5684 days ago
My apologies for the confusion, then. It's also in the fine print (1.E.2.)... I feel like deleting my entry to avoid the noise. What to do? Downvote away, folks!

Edit: As an aside, PG could copyright their digitization of public-domain works, right?

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tghw 5684 days ago
Not without making significant changes to the content, no.
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