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

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Message-ID: <568bd74b-10a5-42cc-b71d-0c42a7b59297@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:00:16 +0200
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 16/07/2025 13.38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

Ok, can do.

  Thomas