On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 07:13:30 +0200
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 09:25:53PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > David Niklas wrote:
> >   
> > > I tried using apt to search for gcc's doc package to no avail. Of
> > > course, I can bring up a very brief info page, but I'm talking the
> > > "full length everything explained" version.
> > > 
> > > Where is the gcc info page?  
> > 
> > If you want the Info page for gcc-14 (the default), you can get it by
> > installing gcc-doc, which depends on gcc-14-doc (which has the actual
> > Info page).  But I think you need to have both contrib (for gcc-doc)
> > and non-free (for gcc-14-doc) enabled.  
> 
> Exactly. gcc-*-doc is in the non-free section, because there is some
> mismatch between Gnu's default documentation license (GFDL) and
> Debian's guidelines (the Debian Free Software Guidelines, DFSG).
> 
> This is unfortunate, but currently difficult to change, alas.
> 
> For some background:
> 
>   https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq#GFDL
>   https://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
> 
> Cheers

Thanks guys! I found it!

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