(GNU/)Linux man-pages became non-free

Martin Schulze joey at infodrom.org
Mon Feb 23 11:14:24 UTC 2004


Hi,

did you notice that the man-pages package recently became non-free?
The Open Group and IEEE "contributed" POSIX manpages which were added
as of version 1.65 of man-pages.  Distribution is permitted but no
modification, hence incompatible with the ideas of Free Software.

Here's the official announcement <http://linuxpr.com/releases/6599.html>

Regards,

	Joey

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