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If it's going to do that much "good" for humanity, then the dataset should be 0BSD or CC0, not proprietary. Project Gutenberg does good by archiving and allowing access to a lot of books and everything is under Creative Commons to continue to allow people the freedom to use the data as well as attribute the original authors. GitHub isn't doing this at all and is instead selling a proprietary product built on scanning open source that didn't consent.


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