On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:12:10 +0200, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> [...] For example, GFDL-hostile entities like Debian will be free to >>> distribute the material GPL-only, meaning that it will become >>> impossible to reasonably create printed copies. >> >> It is impossible to reasonably create printed copies of GPLed >> manuals? > You need to provide the complete machine-readable source code on a > medium customarily used for software interchange, or a written offer > to provide to _any_ third party at cost the source code for a duration > of three years. The first is not really feasible in many cases, Maybe. Although several books already come with CD-ROMs. And the cost of adding a CD-ROM to a book is probably less than, say, paying an author to write the book in the first place. Or you just add a dollar to the cost of the book. > and the latter is an uncalculable risk that might involve unknown > amounts of logistics to process. Throw it up on a web server for three years. If anyone cares enough to ask for the source instead of just downloading it, you get a gopher to burn it onto a CD-ROM and mail it. It's not really that complicated. > With the GFDL, the source requirement kicks in at 100 copies of the > manual, and then it can be be satisfied by putting the source on a web > server for a year. > For pretty much every publisher, those differences will be much more > relevant than two sentences on the cover. But it is not an unreasonable cost. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
