From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Address changes in "COPYING" Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:36:07 +0200 Message-ID: <853bqrsxhk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ll4krlqp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <878y0judj7.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120668152 21290 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2005 16:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 18:42:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCwn-0004oc-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCwv-0003X3-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCwI-0003LB-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCwH-0003KJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCwG-0003Jx-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqCzC-0004E1-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqCqI-0006SV-4q; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8EB0D1CE0FEB; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:36:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <878y0judj7.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40503 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40503 Lute Kamstra writes: > David Kastrup 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