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gcc-4.0 package

  1. Bug #20142
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 20142

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In , Frank Lichtenheld (djpig) wrote : Re: Bug#280803: libgcc1: contains non-free GNU FDL

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:18:50PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Brian M. Carlson writes:
> > The copyright file includes a copy of the GNU Free Documentation
> > License, which has been judged by debian-legal to be non-free. Please
> > remove the non-free material from the package or move the package to
> > non-free.
>
> I do not want to believe that debian-legal judges such nonsense,
> i.e. to distribute a licence file with a non DFSG license. It's
> clearly marked which license terms hold for the libgcc_s.so.1.

I think what he meant was that the documentation licensed under the GFDL
is considered non-free, which is true. This would be a similar bug to #193787
against gcc-3.3 and sarge-ignore like it.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <email address hidden>
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