Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNUEmacsmanual
* Gunnar Wolf:
> Florian Weimer dijo [Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:14:55PM +0100]:
>> > Well... Remember the GPL does not require you to provide the sources
>> > _together_ with the binary/printout/whatever - It requires you to
>> > provide means to get the sources. So if you print a book that [...]
>> > has the URL for the place you can refer to in order to get the
>> > source, it will be enough. That does not sound like 'unnecessarily
>> > complicated'.
>>
>> This is an unusual GPL interpretation. Most commentators assume that
>> providing a *separate* URL is *not* enough.
>
> That's exactly what Debian does, isn't it?
No, Debian distributes source and binaries on the same (virtual)
medium. This is different from handing over a physical object with
the "binary" and providing a URL for some resource on the Internet.
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