A confusing situation - do I have the facts right?
Amazon is ok with publishing public domain works. However, this is not a public domain work so it doesn't matter.
GNU Free Doc License, just like GPL, doesn't care if you charge money or not; only that you pass along the content when you distribute and that you don't add restrictions on what people can do with the content.
Amazon states in their rules that they won't accept freely redistributable content unless the submitting author is also the copyright owner.
Author does not explicitly state that he is the copyright owner in his response to Amazon, which explains the rejection.
Author does correctly state that GNU Doc License allows redistribution even if you are not the copyright owner. Thus he may have been trying to make a political point that it shouldn't matter if he is the copyright owner or not since he has the right to redistribute, for profit, from the license?
In any event, it doesn't matter since Amazon's stated policy is not to accept works in this precise scenario. Why, I don't know; but it is their right to do so.
Amazon is ok with publishing public domain works. However, this is not a public domain work so it doesn't matter.
GNU Free Doc License, just like GPL, doesn't care if you charge money or not; only that you pass along the content when you distribute and that you don't add restrictions on what people can do with the content.
Amazon states in their rules that they won't accept freely redistributable content unless the submitting author is also the copyright owner.
Author does not explicitly state that he is the copyright owner in his response to Amazon, which explains the rejection.
Author does correctly state that GNU Doc License allows redistribution even if you are not the copyright owner. Thus he may have been trying to make a political point that it shouldn't matter if he is the copyright owner or not since he has the right to redistribute, for profit, from the license?
In any event, it doesn't matter since Amazon's stated policy is not to accept works in this precise scenario. Why, I don't know; but it is their right to do so.