GCC 4.3 license in manual still under GPLv2

[Mark Mitchell]

Richard Guenther wrote:

>>  How about we just drop the manual pages, then?
>>
>>  Right now, we're in the situation where the manual is deceptive.  If the
>>  manual talks about GPLv2, a user might rely on that.  We should be
>>  making the license unambiguous so that users do not feel deceived.  If
>>  we don't have the bandwidth to mess with all the bits required here,
>>  then maybe we should just stop providing man pages.  For something as
>>  big and complex as GCC, info/HTML/PDF all seem like better media.
> 
> IMHO manpages for the driver(s) with option summaries are a good thing to
> have and I'd hate to lose them.

Well, would anyone like to volunteer to update our manual, then?

I think that this is a critical defect in the current sourcebase; do we 
have a PR open?  If not, I can file one.

Thanks,

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