Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> I'd also say that for a user, access to documentation is an unavoidable 
> requirement for using the software (e.g. for most non-trivial uses it 
> will be a pain to work with a gcc without any documentation of the 
> available options - and even Debian developers will have to use the 
> GFDL'ed documentation as part of their Debian work).

The fact that we can remove the documentation and still distribute the
software demonstrates that it isn't an unavoidable requirement.
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