linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF

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Message-ID: <2025071620-economy-unifier-b5aa@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:38:32 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 07:45:48AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
> 
> The FSF does not reside in the Franklin street anymore. Let's update
> the address with the link to their website, as suggested in the latest
> revisions of their licenses.
> (See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt for example)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
> ---
>  LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0 |  6 +++---
>  LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0  | 10 ++++------
>  LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.0 |  5 ++---
>  LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 |  8 ++++----
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0 b/LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
> index 3a4fa969e4c29..8d0a75431f06d 100644
> --- a/LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
> +++ b/LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0
> @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ License-Text:
>  	     Version 1, February 1989
>  
>   Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> -                    675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
> +                    <https://fsf.org/>
> +

Nit, this change, differs from this one:

> --- a/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> +++ b/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ License-Text:
>  		    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
> + Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> + <https://fsf.org/>
>   Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>   of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>  

Ah, wait, that's what the FSF did on their site, ugh.

How about make this 4 patches, one for each file, include a link to
where each of the changes came from (you only have one link in the
changelog.)

Just to be explicit here.

thanks,

greg k-h