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Berrangé wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >>>> On 6/16/25 09:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 07:29:09AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >>>>>> Hello Sean, >>>>>> >>>>>> On 6/13/25 18:44, Sean Wei wrote: >>>>>>> Some of the GPLv2 boiler-plate still contained the >>>>>>> obsolete "51 Franklin Street" postal address. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Replace it with the canonical GNU licenses URL recommended by the FSF: >>>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Wei >>>>>> >>>>>> Instead,  I would remove the license boiler plate and add : >>>>>> >>>>>>     SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later >>>>> >>>>> This is *NOT* something we are doing for existing code sources, >>>>> unless the person removing it is the exclusive copyright >>>>> holder on the file. >>>> Ah. So I misunderstood. >>>> >>>> How is license boiler plate different from the SPDX identifier tag ? >>> >>> It achieves the same aims, but notice GPL clause 1 >>> >>>    "keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and >>>     to the absence of any warranty;" >>> >>> and yes, some projects have none the less done a wholesale replacement of >>> boilerplate. I don't know how they rationalized ignoring this license >>> requirement. It is simpler to just preserve boilerplate as-is that to >>> debate the legal nuances of this. >> OK. Then, let's forget about this replacement. >> >> Thanks, >> >> C. >> > > Thank you both for the clarification! To avoid any controversy, I will keep the patch in its original form, only replacing the deprecated FSF address with the canonical GNU licenses URL. yep. > Cédric, could you please take another look and let me know if everything looks good? If so, I'd be grateful if you could add a Reviewed-by tag. Thanks! sure. Thanks, C.