Hi, since I couldn't find it in the archive, I have to ask here: Has it been discussed, and if yes to what end, whether a printed version (of a GPL'ed document) would be "object code" as treated in section 3,
,---- | 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, | under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of | Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: `---- On the one hand, treating printed copies of the work just the same as any digital "compiled" version sounds logical and in the intent of the license. On the other hand, a book or booklet is something very different from a PDF or PostScript file, and probably more so in the view of lawyers and judges than ordinary netizens. Therefore an alternative interpretation could also be used: That paper copies of the document are not addressed at all by the license (and can therefore be more restricted by the copyright holder, like for non-commercial use only). And of course, the main concern why I ask this here: If an author intents their documentation to be as freely usable as their program (and therefore wants to license it under the program's license), but wants to restrict commercial trade of the printed version, and therefore assumes the second interpretation, would such a document qualify for Debian (main, of course)? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)