[weel]

Which is completely irrelevant because whoever does have the original copyright has already licensed them to everyone under publicly available conditions.

[sliverstorm]

But is it really irrelevant?

The GPLv2 has made it clear something can be made freely available to the public, yet still have redistribution conditions. So, simply being "licensed to everyone" does not also grant distribution rights to everyone.

[codemac]

That's actually... exactly what GPLv2 enables?

Which is still completely irrelevant because this document is licensed under the GFDL.

[samuellb]

Source? Why does e.g. Debian or other free software distributors think they can distribute GPLv2 software then?

[sliverstorm]

I'm not saying the GPLv2 withholds distribution rights; rather, it grants them conditionally, and if you can grant them conditionally you can withhold them.