On 11/13/07, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu> wrote:
> What is the legality of these downloads? I couldn't find any note on the
> web site and I can't imagine the O'Reilly
> <download.php?OReilly%20-%20Linux%20Security%20Cookbook.rar> books being
> available for free.

Several O'Reilly books are published under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Here's an example:
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/licenseinfo.html

As for the rest, I guess you'll have to do some checking on your own.