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> Those books were purchased

Sometimes. People also borrowed them, read them in libraries, or in later years looked at free textbooks online.

> and a license granted for such use

I never heard of such a thing, and it was never seen as necessary. No student checked the licenses on their textbooks before deciding whether they could read them.



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