Bug#583141: marked as done (gcc-doc: claims "Invariant Sections" in the manpage that are not actually present: isn't the manpage DFSG free?)
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regarding gcc-doc: claims "Invariant Sections" in the manpage that are not actually present: isn't the manpage DFSG free?
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Package: gcc-doc
Version: 5:2
Severity: normal
The gcc manpage says "with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License" and "Funding Free Software"", however
neither "GNU General Public License", nor "Funding Free Software" appears in the manpage itself, hence the manpage can be
considered as not having any invariant sections.
The DFSG FAQ says "Data licensed under the FDL with no invariant sections are considered DFSG-free as of GR 2006-001".
Could the manpage be moved back to the main archive? (probably by putting it
into the gcc package itself, or into another package?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc5-00118-gf259493 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gcc-doc depends on:
ii gcc-4.3-doc 4.3.4.nf1-1 documentation for the GNU compiler
gcc-doc recommends no packages.
gcc-doc suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On 05/27/2010 12:21 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 25.05.2010 19:58, Török Edwin wrote:
>> Package: gcc-doc
>> Version: 5:2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> The gcc manpage says "with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General
>> Public License" and "Funding Free Software"", however
>> neither "GNU General Public License", nor "Funding Free Software"
>> appears in the manpage itself, hence the manpage can be
>> considered as not having any invariant sections.
>>
>> The DFSG FAQ says "Data licensed under the FDL with no invariant
>> sections are considered DFSG-free as of GR 2006-001".
>>
>> Could the manpage be moved back to the main archive? (probably by
>> putting it
>> into the gcc package itself, or into another package?)
>
> no, look at the upstream file gcc/doc/invoke.texi, with its explicit
> license.
>
> Ubuntu does ship the manual pages including the (invariant)
> fsf-funding(7) manual page. Just refactoring fsf-funding(7) into it's
> own manpage doesn't make the *(1) man pages invariant-free.
OK, lets close this bug then.
Isn't there a chance to convince upstream to release the gcc manpage
under a more DFSG-friendly license (or remove those invariant sections
from it)?
It is kind of strange that you have to install a 'non-free' manpage for
a free compiler.
Best regards,
--Edwin
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