From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Address changes in "COPYING"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:36:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <853bqrsxhk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878y0judj7.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200")
Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-06 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 15:35 Address changes in "COPYING" David Kastrup
2005-07-06 16:04 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-06 16:36 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-06 22:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
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