Re: What happened to the gcc man pages?

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

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