Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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...
Did you mean "can't" here? My expectation is that the FSF treats a Debian package as more of a portmanteau document than as a program, and so would call this mere aggregation. Let's say Alice's installer uses secret-sharing or error-correcting codes to meld the program and the documentation, then produce separate works from them. -Brian
