Re: [PATCH 01/12] COPYING: replace FSF postal address with licenses URL

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 13/06/2025 18.33, Sean Wei wrote:
> The license text in COPYING (GPLv2), COPYING.LIB (LGPLv2.1),
> and the linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 file are
> referenced to the obsolete FSF postal address.
> 
> Replace it with the canonical GNU licenses URL recommended by the FSF:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wei <me@sean.taipei>
> ---
>   COPYING                                  | 5 ++---
>   COPYING.LIB                              | 5 ++---
>   linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 | 5 ++---
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> index 00ccfbb628..8095135d50 100644
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ b/COPYING
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>   		       Version 2, June 1991
>   
>    Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
> + <https://fsf.org/>
>    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>   
> @@ -304,8 +304,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
>       GNU General Public License for more details.
>   
>       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> -    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> -    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> +    with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   
>   Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
>   
> diff --git a/COPYING.LIB b/COPYING.LIB
> index 4362b49151..99f47575b5 100644
> --- a/COPYING.LIB
> +++ b/COPYING.LIB
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>                          Version 2.1, February 1999
>   
>    Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
> + <https://fsf.org/>
>    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>   
> @@ -484,8 +484,7 @@ convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
>       Lesser General Public License for more details.
>   
>       You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> -    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
> -    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
> +    License along with this library; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   
>   Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
>   
> diff --git a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> index ff0812fd89..10248a619e 100644
> --- a/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> +++ b/linux-headers/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0

The files in linux-headers are sync'ed by the script 
scripts/update-linux-headers.sh ... so these changes will be reverted the 
next time someone runs the script. I'd suggest to drop this part of the 
patch - if you feel like contributing a patch to the Linux kernel, you could 
fix it there instead.

  Thomas