Lee <[email protected]> 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

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Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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