On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM Xiyue Deng wrote: > > Lee writes: > > > [...] > > > > *sigh* man pages are not free?!! What is their problem? > > In Debian, anything that doesn't conform to the Debian Free Software > Guidelines (DFSG) is considered non-free, including some other free > software licenses. In this case, GCC (and many other GNU projects) are > using the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) for their documentations > which is not considered DFSG-compatible. See [1] for more details if > you are interested. > > > [...] > > [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001.en.html
Wow! A most excellent description of the problem. Thank you!! Regards Lee
