1. Forum
  2. FidoNet
  3. linux.debian.user

  • Re: What happened to the gcc man pages?

    From Michael Paoli@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 22:20:02
    On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 8:35?PM Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 11:15?PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
    Section: contrib/doc
    You're missing contrib. The gcc documentation is not Free software.
    *sigh* man pages are not free?!! What is their problem?

    contrib is itself free, but has non-free dependency(/ies)
    gcc-doc depends on gcc-14-doc which is non-free

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Michael P. Soulier@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 23:00:01
    On 06/01/26 Michael Paoli said:

    contrib is itself free, but has non-free dependency(/ies)
    gcc-doc depends on gcc-14-doc which is non-free

    Curious. What part of gcc-14-doc is non-free?

    Mike

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Greg Wooledge@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 23:10:01
    On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 16:53:49 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
    On 06/01/26 Michael Paoli said:

    contrib is itself free, but has non-free dependency(/ies)
    gcc-doc depends on gcc-14-doc which is non-free

    Curious. What part of gcc-14-doc is non-free?

    It's distributed under a non-free license. Specifically, the GNU
    Free Documentation License, which Debian classifies as non-free.

    See <https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001> for details.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Michael P. Soulier@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 23:10:01
    On 06/01/26 Greg Wooledge said:

    It's distributed under a non-free license. Specifically, the GNU
    Free Documentation License, which Debian classifies as non-free.

    See <https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001> for details.

    K thanks.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Andy Smith@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 23:10:02
    Hi,

    On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 04:53:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
    On 06/01/26 Michael Paoli said:
    contrib is itself free, but has non-free dependency(/ies)
    gcc-doc depends on gcc-14-doc which is non-free

    Curious. What part of gcc-14-doc is non-free?

    As Xiyue Deng posted here in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/12/msg00462.html some GNU
    documents are licensed with GNU Free Documentation License which
    includes several restrictions, most notably the concept of "invariant
    sections" that may never be distributed in a modified form. The Debian
    project took a vote back in 2006 and decided these restrictions upon distribution made GFDL not "free" as defined by Debian.

    Thanks,
    Andy

    --
    https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)