On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >If it's licensed under the GPL, and no source is provided, then it can > >not be distributed at all, not even in non-free, unless there never was > >source to begin with. (I assume this isn't the case, as you said "no > >source code is provided", not "no source code exists".) > > We should allow it if source code once existed but no longer exists (all > the copies of the source code were wiped accidentally at some time in > the past).
So it's okay to ignore the DFSG in this case? Why can't we do that for, say, GFDL manuals?
