From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Address changes in "COPYING" Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200 Message-ID: <878y0judj7.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: <85ll4krlqp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120666466 15559 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2005 16:14:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 18:14:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCWa-000079-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:13:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCXu-0003Ed-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCSn-0001QB-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCSY-0001Iz-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqCSW-0001E7-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.35] (helo=smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqCU0-0001mw-2P; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from pijl (a80-127-67-124.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.127.67.124]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j66G4CcP075713; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Lute.Kamstra@xs4all.nl) Original-Received: from lute by pijl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DqCNg-0001cj-00; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85ll4krlqp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:35:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 23 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:40502 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40502 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 > > 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.