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A new GPLv3 timetableA new GPLv3 timetablePosted Mar 27, 2007 18:32 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: A new GPLv3 timetable by coriordan Parent article: A new GPLv3 timetable
To reiterate, GFDL documents with invariant sections are considered non-free, by Debian and by me, as they do not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines. As a result, things such as the man pages for gcc are *not* in Debian, because they are unfree. They are stored in the non-free section of Debian, which means they are installable by users who explicitly choose to acquire the non-free lists of packages, and who explicitly choose to install the gcc documentation which is not pulled in by the gcc software. Similar situations are repeated for most GNU tools.
As an aside, one of the invariant sections is the GFDL text itself, and some accompanying text. This means that this huge slab of irrelevant text must be either included in all man pages, greatly reducing their usability, or must be installed (as the license allows) as a seperate gfdl manpage, which is referenced. Having manpages which are not actually manuals for anything offends my sysadmin sensibilities, so I've actually gone so far as to create a fake package which replaces these manuals with no files at all, thus circumventing this silly requirement. I may be in violation of the GFDL, but perhaps remain safe so long as I do not distribute my installation.
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