Brian T. Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2003-10-13 19:58:58 +0100 Brian T. Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alice distributes a program, under the GPL, and a documentation > >> package for that program under the GFDL. Because she is the copyright > >> holder, she distributes them together. Nobody else can redistribute > >> this as a single integral package, of course. > > > > I'm not convinced by this step in the reasoning. If they are merely > > aggregated, surely others can distribute them in the same packaging? > > Let's say Alice distributes them as an InstallShield(tm) program, or > as a shar-style archive: an installer program which installs the > documentation and the useful program. Certainly nobody can make such > an installer -- which is a derived work -- except Alice.
Or as a Debian package? Are you arguing that we can distribute GFDL and GPL contents in the same package? You'd be the first...
