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[PATCH 01/12] COPYING: replace FSF postal address with licenses URL

Sean Wei posted 12 patches 5 months ago
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[PATCH 01/12] COPYING: replace FSF postal address with licenses URL
Posted by Sean Wei 5 months ago 
The license text in COPYING (GPLv2), COPYING.LIB (LGPLv2.1),
and the linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 file are
referenced to the obsolete FSF postal address.

Replace it with the canonical GNU licenses URL recommended by the FSF:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Signed-off-by: Sean Wei <me@sean.taipei>
---
 COPYING                                  | 5 ++---
 COPYING.LIB                              | 5 ++---
 linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 | 5 ++---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 00ccfbb628..8095135d50 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 		       Version 2, June 1991
 
  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ <https://fsf.org/>
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
@@ -304,8 +304,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
     GNU General Public License for more details.
 
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+    with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
diff --git a/COPYING.LIB b/COPYING.LIB
index 4362b49151..99f47575b5 100644
--- a/COPYING.LIB
+++ b/COPYING.LIB
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                        Version 2.1, February 1999
 
  Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+ <https://fsf.org/>
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
@@ -484,8 +484,7 @@ convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
     Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
-    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+    License along with this library; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
diff --git a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
index ff0812fd89..10248a619e 100644
--- a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
+++ b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ License-Text:
 		       Version 2, June 1991
 
  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-                       51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+ <https://fsf.org/>
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
@@ -323,8 +323,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
     GNU General Public License for more details.
 
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+    along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
-- 
2.49.0
Re: [PATCH 01/12] COPYING: replace FSF postal address with licenses URL
Posted by Thomas Huth 4 months, 3 weeks ago 
On 13/06/2025 18.33, Sean Wei wrote:
> The license text in COPYING (GPLv2), COPYING.LIB (LGPLv2.1),
> and the linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 file are
> referenced to the obsolete FSF postal address.
> 
> Replace it with the canonical GNU licenses URL recommended by the FSF:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wei <me@sean.taipei>
> ---
>   COPYING                                  | 5 ++---
>   COPYING.LIB                              | 5 ++---
>   linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 | 5 ++---
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> index 00ccfbb628..8095135d50 100644
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ b/COPYING
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>   		       Version 2, June 1991
>   
>    Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
> + <https://fsf.org/>
>    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>   
> @@ -304,8 +304,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
>       GNU General Public License for more details.
>   
>       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> -    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> -    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> +    with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   
>   Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
>   
> diff --git a/COPYING.LIB b/COPYING.LIB
> index 4362b49151..99f47575b5 100644
> --- a/COPYING.LIB
> +++ b/COPYING.LIB
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>                          Version 2.1, February 1999
>   
>    Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
> + <https://fsf.org/>
>    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>   
> @@ -484,8 +484,7 @@ convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
>       Lesser General Public License for more details.
>   
>       You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> -    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
> -    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
> +    License along with this library; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   
>   Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
>   
> diff --git a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> index ff0812fd89..10248a619e 100644
> --- a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> +++ b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0

The files in linux-headers are sync'ed by the script 
scripts/update-linux-headers.sh ... so these changes will be reverted the 
next time someone runs the script. I'd suggest to drop this part of the 
patch - if you feel like contributing a patch to the Linux kernel, you could 
fix it there instead.

  Thomas

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