Re: Address changes in "COPYING"

[David Kastrup]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> 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
>>

[...]

>> 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.

Ah, ok.  Got me worried for a moment.  My usual surprise about there
being intelligent life on this planet.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum