Eike Lange writes:
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:53:44PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
On The debian-legal mailing list there currently is a major discussion about the "freeness" of the "GNU Free Documentation License". You may want to look at the archives yourself, one point to start is http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200304/msg00307.html
Comes to my TODO list.
[...] but in the man page I only find: COPYING Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the GFDL comes as a texinfo document along with the GPC manual. In contrast with copying-fdl.texi, there is no mentioning of the "Invariant Sections":
Thank you for the bug-report, I'll fix this as soon as possible.
Please clarify the copyright of the man page. I'll have to remove the info and html docs from the Debian main section (maybe somebody volunteers to repackage them to the non-free section), but to keep at least the manual pages in the package I'd like to see the license of the manual pages be clarified.
The Man-Page is Free, GPC's info files are Free and the compiler itself is Free. So please do not move those things into "non-free". Do you (the Debian team) really think, our documentation is propritary?
did you actually look at the given URL?
What is the correct license in Debian's view?
If I correctly understand, texi and info files without invariant sections would allow Debian to include the docs in the main section.
Matthias