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Re: Address changes in "COPYING"
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Address changes in "COPYING" |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:36:07 +0200 |
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Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> the recent batch of address changes also affected a lot of "COPYING"
>> files. Those now start with
>>
>> GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>> Version 2, June 1991
>>
[...]
>> While the Free Software foundation is the copyright holder and thus
>> allowed to change this document at a whim, I think I remember that
>> the license with a corrected address was called something
>> different, like Version 2.01.
>
> I recalled something similar, so I stole the new version of COPYING
> from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. (Hence the strange
> indentation of the address.) I guess that is the official version.
Ah, ok. Got me worried for a moment. My usual surprise about there
being intelligent life on this planet.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum