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[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Important bug reports (GNU documentation missing)
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christophe . jarry |
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[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Important bug reports (GNU documentation missing) |
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Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:23:07 +0200 |
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During my work on packaging GNU documentation for gNewSense metad, I
found some strange things, which may be bugs to be reported to GNU:
-in GCC-4.5.0 source code:
-most of the documentation is under the GNU FDL v1.2 or later, while
it should be under GNU FDL v1.3 or later (cpp.info, gcc.info,
gccinstall.info, gccint.info, gcj.info, gfortran.info, gnat*.texi,
libgomp.info);
-'cppinternals.info' is not under the GNU FDL, while copyrighted by the FSF;
-'cp-tools.info' has no license at all, while copyrighted by the FSF;
-'gfortran.info' is copyrighted by the FSF '1999-2008', although it
should be under the form '1999, 2000, [other years], 2008';
-documentation for 'libstdc++' is html-only, while, as part of the
GNU project, it should be written in texinfo.
-in Binutils-2.20.1 source code:
-'standards.info' is under GFDL v1.2 or later instead of GFDL v1.3 or later;
-some files have FSF copyright years written in the form '99'
instead of '1999' (as.info, gprof.info, ld.info), I don't know if this
matters much.
-in GDB-7.1 source code:
-most of the documentation is released under the GNU FDL v1.1 or
later (annotate.info, gdb.info, gdbint.info, stabs.info) or GNU FDL
v1.2 or later (standards.info), while it should be under GNU FDL v1.3
or later.
For my 'gnu-doc' package, I plan to use the 'bfd.info' file released
in gdb-7.1 source code, which is more recent than binutils-2.20.1 one.
Do you think it is a problem to include latest versions of GNU
documentation in 'gnu-doc' package, while GNU software available in
gNewSense metad is older?
Christophe
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