Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > Do you agree with Eduardo's argument below: > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[email protected]> 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. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
