On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:06:01AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:08:18AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > If the point is obvious, my apologies, but: If sufficiently motivated > > people are annoyed by the ongoing conversion of GNU documentation to GFDL, > > they may at any time fork the final non-GFDL version and maintain > > derivative works (updated manuals) to benefit Debian and others. > > Yes, though it should be kept in mind that the GPL-incompatibility > problem remains. We *still* won't be able to drop hunks of these > manuals into their corresponding programs as on-line documentation, > unless the same text happens to already exist somewhere else under the > GNU GPL.
Couldn't one just package it up as a separate package? (apt-get install gcc-doc or whatnot) In fact, they probably already are separate packages in many cases.
