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

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