From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56FE1196C7C; Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750490440; cv=none; b=lnoPhYcNGE0dCTp0dokDZsdg//PmFWu7Y32hNmtVcNnFbaEnN/W+6ai4cHtaFspIhyNKPTw2sae1EPfevn/ix0u53BmmsaemkxKX65tjJnTTmAYA1P7STxv5xcYsQ4RGyh0fgNHm4N9JqRndIJiXuBAxLwYG23o7X7jh8Q4K95U= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750490440; c=relaxed/simple; bh=mLvd9Gqocb9k339FLiaa/yirmOQpnB7Yx6TkRrlWF5I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=c6E8eAiCtFdRXLi+RUaq1dlOvKn6BPgGxxh9QR1FPgZGy2M5wn6ZL2BEq2mDQgE/vXOokWeUU4LVKKrJfAj5NCPvyCIqpTxyXgl8KaHA65zNXGCq9UjxxBi3ko0xKoHILNwVduV9qZczBYVVQVIftFK0YfBG1203rBikgObXj/U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=S8SuzjSy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="S8SuzjSy" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83A80C4CEE7; Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:20:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1750490439; bh=mLvd9Gqocb9k339FLiaa/yirmOQpnB7Yx6TkRrlWF5I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=S8SuzjSyglHmFkvRw2FoKZ7pmdYUQQUpkN4zgqkCBJ//c+rVKGeOfgGCV+7Ul4rxw ePa2esUC7TitkNP1gCo9NqaGbIk7nWuxUfTnrw3rYaMUa+xjGgCfIo6hyyAfa+h78o Nh/S2c8inwpytnsXEgJZ6ew51ouMHoNYag4gTe/Q= Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:20:37 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Xose Vazquez Perez Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LINUX SPDX ML , LINUX KERNEL ML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] LICENSES: refresh FSF GFDL/GPL licences Message-ID: <2025062111-detonate-clapped-b630@gregkh> References: <20250621012117.91729-1-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250621012117.91729-1-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 03:21:13AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Old licences have been modified, because FSF postal address was changed: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-09/msg00000.html > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-office-closing-party > https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/mailing > > Just "cut and paste" from original sources: > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.txt > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.txt > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt > > Relevant change: postal address was replaced with an URL. You also changed whitespace and some terms, and did not describe that here, why? This license text comes from the SPDX repo, why not use that instead? Or better yet, _JUST_ change the address, if that is correct with what the FSF has published, and that's it. Unneeded whitespace issues are not a good idea and not needed at all. thanks, greg k-h