The government's source of FSI courses is http://www.ntis.gov - www.ntis.gov . The courses cost a little less than what you would pay from Multilingual Books or Audio Forum etc.
Another source for government originals is a library. Demipuppet has been able to contribute a lot of material since the local university library has lots of original FSI courses in its collection. This has the added advantage of saving on the expense of buying the materials.
In the past, the government's printing office (GPO) used to sell reprints of some FSI textbooks for a token amount, but it seems to have discontinued that service some ago. Every now and then, bookshops that specialize in old or rare books have a few copies of original FSI textbooks in their inventory. If you run a search with bookfinder.com, abebooks.com or alibiris.com, you'll see some original FSI textbooks on sale along with second-hand copies of FSI books that are being passed off by Barron's, Audio-Forum or Multilingual Books as their own.
In general, people without connections to FSI or access to a library that lends original government-issued FSI courses often go through NTIS and pay a couple of hundred dollars per course if they want to donate material for this website. It's more difficult to find suitable material from dealers of rare books but with luck, one can sometimes find something eligible for donation to this site.
The copyright status of FSI courses from private resellers has been discussed ad nauseum on this forum.
This thread is probably all that you need to know about gdfellows' policy.
http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=231 - http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=231
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