Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacsmanual

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Gunnar Wolf:

> 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.