Re: FSF office adddress update

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi GNU webmasters,

What is the process to update the postal addresses in the old GPLv2,
LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 license files?

$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/gpl-2.0.texi
$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.texi
$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.txt
$GNUWWWLICENSES old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.texi

Gnulib imports these files, and they contain the old FSF postal address,
which according to RMS shouldn't be used anymore.

These old license are still in use by several GNU projects for various
reasons.

Could we update these files to match GPLv3 that doesn't include the
postal address?

GPLv2.0:

-Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

LGPLv2.1:

-Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

LGPLv2.0:

-Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

I didn't add 2024 to the copyright year, because it seems you modified
that file before to use the Franklin Street address and surely FSF's
move to that address was after 1991?  But adding 2024 is fine too.

There is also the following snippet at the end, for GPLv2:

    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

and LGPLv2.0 and LGPLv2.1:

    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  
USA

Could we modify these into:

    ; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Which would make them consistent with GPLv3 and this recomendation:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Code.html

Thanks,
/Simon

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