Re: Preprints/Reprints of Academic Papers in Packages

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>]

>>>>> "John" == John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:

    John> On 17 Mar 2002, Sam Hartman wrote:
    >>>>>>> "C" == C M Connelly <cmc@debian.org> writes:
    >>
    C> Many packages contain preprints or reprints of academic papers
    C> as part of their documentation.  In many cases, there is no
    C> ``source'' available for these documents -- they are
    C> distributed as PostScript or PDF files.
    >>  One case that seems fairly clear to me is cases where the
    >> upstream doesn't have the source either.  If the upstream would
    >> be stuck editing the ps or pdf if they wanted to modify the
    >> document, then that document is its own source code at least
    >> under the GPL definition.

    John> What does the GPL definition have to do with Debian?



It seems a not unreasonable definition of source code to use.