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


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