From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: debian-gcc@lists.debian.org
Subject: license of generated info docs (GFDL?) and man pages
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16078.13823.915243.161138@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
Looking at the source of the gcc docs, the GFDL-1.2 is mentioned. In
the generated html docs and in the generated man pages you can re-find
the copyright, but it's absent of the generated info docs. Some
questions:
- Are the generated info docs are covered by the GFDL, and
especially are there any invariant sections?
- Assuming the description of the options will be generated from a
common description in the sources (in 3.4 or later), will the output
of gcc --help be put under the GFDL as well?
- Could the GCC project consider to re-license the man pages under a
license, which would Debian allow to distribute these as part of the
gcc package(s)?
Thanks, Matthias
Background: Debian doesn't see the GFDL (and especially the Invariant
sections) as a free license. As a consequence, the docs and man pages
have to be removed from the Debian packages. However it seems to be ok
to put these in a separate package in the "non-free" section, which is
built from another source package.
See http://bugs.debian.org/193787 for more information.
next reply other threads:[~2003-05-23 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 14:55 Matthias Klose [this message]
2003-05-23 15:06 ` Andrew Pinski
2003-05-23 15:31 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-05-23 16:01 ` Gerald Pfeifer
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