FYI, the reason those manpages exist in the first place, is that the
GCC Texinfo manual is under the GFDL, and the manpages cpp.1/gcc.1 are
automatically generated from it. The FSF advised us (the GCC
maintainers) that creating and distributing separate manpages for each
of the Invariant Sections
Henning Makholm writes:
> Scripsit Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to
> > /usr/share/misc/common-licenses
>
> > gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in
> > /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore re
Scripsit Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to
> /usr/share/misc/common-licenses
> gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in
> /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore redundant
And in any case, it seems to
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to
> /usr/share/misc/common-licenses
/usr/share/common-licenses
Foo.
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Andrew Suffield writes:
> > Package: cpp
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the
> > cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable).
>
> this doesn't make sense.
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Andrew Suffield writes:
> > Package: cpp
> > Severity: serious
> > The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the
> > cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable).
> this doesn't make sense. you ar
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> AFAIK the distribution of
> license texts is allowed in main, even if the license itself is
> non-free.
This would seem to be only common sense.
If I take it upon myself to educate the world about the evil and stupidity
of the EULA
Andrew Suffield writes:
> Package: cpp
> Severity: serious
>
> The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the
> cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable).
this doesn't make sense. you are not allowed to change a copyright,
even for software distributed in main
Package: cpp
Severity: serious
The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the
cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable). [Plus they
aren't mentioned in the copyright file, which claims the package is
GPLed]
They should almost certainly be removed entirely, and
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