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Re: Address changes in "COPYING"


From: Lute Kamstra
Subject: Re: Address changes in "COPYING"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> 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.




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