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From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
To: tools@kernel.org
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] COPYING: Update to current FSF address and boilerplate
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:03:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916070306.2361370-1-mripard@kernel.org> (raw)

The license file contained the FSF postal address at 51 Franklin
Street, which is no longer valid since the FSF moved out of that
office.  rpmlint flags this as incorrect-fsf-address.

Replace the street address with the current recommended GPL v2 text.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
---
 COPYING | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index d159169d1050..9efa6fbc9628 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        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.
 
                             Preamble
 
@@ -302,12 +302,11 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     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.
 
 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
 when it starts in an interactive mode:
@@ -327,12 +326,12 @@ school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
 necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
 
   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
   `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
 
-  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
-  Ty Coon, President of Vice
+  <signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1989
+  Moe Ghoul, President of Vice
 
 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
 proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-16  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-16  7:03 Maxime Ripard [this message]
2026-10-05  9:16 ` [PATCH] COPYING: Update to current FSF address and boilerplate Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-10-05 12:19   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-10-06 13:12     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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