From: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Address changes in "COPYING"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878y0judj7.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ll4krlqp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:35:10 +0200")
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
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-06 16:04 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 [this message]
2005-07-06 16:36 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-06 22:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
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