fsf address change (not)

[Karl Berry]

FYI, the recent FSF address "change" turns out to be a no-op.
I suggested to Brett that the /about/contact page say so, to avoid
further confusion about the discrepancy.

k


Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:25:39 -0500
From: Brett Smith
To: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: fsf address change

On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> I haven't seen any announcements, but from
> http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ I gather the FSF physical address has
> changed.  The zip code is now 02110-1335 instead of 02110-1301.  (And
> there is Suite 500 instead of Fifth Floor, though I imagine Fifth Floor
> will keep working.)

The "Fifth Floor"/"Suite 500" distinction is meaningless; we regularly
get mail at both addresses, as well as other variants.  It's the
difference between writing "Apartment 1" and "#1".

> So, regarding the many places in the licenses where the address is
> embedded, should we:
> 1) update the physical address.
> 2) replace the physical address with the url
>    (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/) that we have in GPLv3. 
> 3) do nothing.
> 4) ?

According to <http://zip4.usps.com/>, -1301 is still a valid +4 for our
address, just slightly less specific.  So I vote we do nothing.