> Media boundaries, as well as file boundaries, are meaningless.  In fact, they
> are one and the same.

Gawd, I can't believe there's still MORE to say about this.  Beating a dead 
horse, about the total complete insignificance of file and media boundaries.

Now how about if I store something in Amazon S3.  They don't provide a 
filesystem; just an abstracted serial data store accessible through an API.  So 
if I write a GPL binary there, and follow it with a non-GPL binary, I haven't 
combined them into a file.  If I tell you to download blocks A, I've only 
distributed the GPL product, not the other product.  If I tell you to download 
blocks B, I've only distributed the other product, not the GPL product.  But if 
I tell you to download blocks A and B, then have I combined those things into a 
single derived work?  

What if I merely tell you, "Block A is the GPL product, and Block B is the 
non-GPL product."  And I leave the decision up to you, to choose if you're 
going to download neither, one or the other, or both.

What if I tell you, "The URL for a GPL product is ___ and the URL for a non-GPL 
product is ____"

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