> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent. If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pil

> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent. If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pilgrim's amazing "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you" essay, which defended his decision to licence his books under the GNU Free Documentation License. Here's the HN discussion on that piece: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726