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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by collinfunk on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:13PM (#43785076)
In Gnulib we distribute and use the license with just a link to <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/> [1]. I would just use that.

Many GNU projects use a rule that will fail 'make distcheck' when it sees an address in the sources [2].

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=bf31... [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=086c...

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by pabs3 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:48PM (#43789672)
Hmm, I wonder if there is a linter somewhere for copyright notice and license grant smells.

Made a note to add an fsf-address check to check-all-the-things.

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