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Re: GFDL and man pages



* Brian T. Sniffen [Tue, 15 Jul 2003 at 08:34 -0400]
> >     # H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
> >
> > That looks pretty clear to me.
> 
> It would be clear, if this were the GNU Free Manpage License.  The FSF
> makes a claim I know I've heard here before: that there is no
> one-to-one mapping from files to works.  They'd presumably
> consider all the manpages in the csound package to be a single work,
> and have each refer to a central gfdl(8) page.

Indeed, the manpages for gcc and friends seem to do just this. (see
gcc(1), cpp(1), gfdl(7gcc), etc.)

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