Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Do you agree with Eduardo's argument below:
>
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> writes:
>
>> IANAL, but I don't think the address is part of the license. I
>> believe the address can be changed to reflect the correct
>> information, if the rest of the license information is kept.
>
> The address is part of the “you should have received a copy of the GPL,
> if not write to the FSF” text. Either that text is part of the text
> that must be in ‘debian/copyright’ verbatim, by policy; or it is not.
So far as I can tell from the GPL 2 and GPL 3, Eduardo is correct and the
address portion is not part of the notices that the GPL requires be
maintained.
> If it is not required to be verbatim in ‘debian/copyright’, then why
> include it at all?
I don't see any reason to do so at the moment.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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