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Re: Address changes in "COPYING"
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Lute Kamstra |
Subject: |
Re: Address changes in "COPYING" |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200 |
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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
>
> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
> USA
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>
> 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.
Lute.