Several of the books include licensing information but many do not seem to. This link at creative commons site, where they collaborated on this program implies many were put into the public domain but it doesn’t say which ones. Founders Copyright - Creative Commons
A couple of the books are clearly GnuFDL and not public domain. Pretty sure Free as in Freedom is never going to get from out under copyleft for a good long time for example
O’Reilly just says:
While the books listed here use various open licenses, since 2003 we’ve focused on using the licenses created by Creative Commons. O’Reilly has adopted the Creative Commons Founders’ Copyright, which we’re applying to hundreds of out-of-print and current titles, pending author approval.
Adding to confusion it looks like they link to books theyve released on the internet archive in places; and the internet archive does not have them DRM free at those official links. Example: The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog : Krol, Ed. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
