Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> It is a form-feed (force new page when printing) so it should probably be >> called by that name, if it were to be removed. > > Oh, thanks for that- I just looked it up. I don't know if they should > be removed at all. Most likely the copy we have is what Linus copied from the kernel tree and adjusted his preamble without touching these form feeds. While I don't think these form-feeds alone would be a good enough reason to touch the file, FSF's address has changed some time ago, and the copy we have does not reflect it, while the copy in the kernel tree was updated in Sep 2005. Curiously enough, the copy in the kernel tree doesn't have the more recent update to rename "GNU Library General Public License" to "GNU Lesser General Public License" (I am CC'ing Linus in case he cares). I'll update our copy with http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt. This will automatically lose the form-feeds. Thanks. -- >8 -- Subject: Update COPYING with GPLv2 with new FSF address The mailing address of FSF changed quite a while ago. Also the expansion of the acronym LGPL (which we don't use) is "Lesser GPL" not "Library GPL" these days in recent copies of GPLv2. Update the copy we have with a fresh download of <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>. This incidentally removes form-feeds in the text we retained for all these years. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 6ff87c4..536e555 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 - Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by -the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to +the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) 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