From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1298 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 14:55:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 1248 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 14:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cs.tu-berlin.de) (130.149.17.13) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 14:55:20 -0000 Received: from bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de (daemon@bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.19.1]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12188; Fri, 23 May 2003 16:53:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from doko@localhost) by bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id h4NErqw13232; Fri, 23 May 2003 16:53:52 +0200 (MEST) From: Matthias Klose MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16078.13823.915243.161138@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:55:00 -0000 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org CC: debian-gcc@lists.debian.org Subject: license of generated info docs (GFDL?) and man pages X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02085.txt.bz2 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.