Interpretation of the GFDL in light of the recent GR

[Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>]

Branden,

I am wondering if you will request that SPI, Inc. obtain from its legal
council, on behalf of the Debian Project, an answer to the following
questions:

   1. Does the term "technical measures" as used in GFDL 2's "you may
      not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or
      further copying of the copies you make or distribute" include such
      measures as file permissions, password-protected FTP sites, HTTPS,
      etc.? If so, does the restricted access to ftp-master violate this
      section?
   2. In section 3, does "if you publish or distribute Opaque copies of
      the Document numbering more than 100, you must either include a
      machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy"
      allow for equivalent access from the same location? (E.g., two
      files on the same FTP site)

I think the first question is the more important of the two.

Thank you.