From 8fe46d315ccd9077817585c17fdd85b3bbc9a598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Benjamin A. Beasley" Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:50:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update LGPL-2.1-or-later license text for remote-only FSF The Free Software Foundation is now remote-only, and no longer has a street address. Updated license text is from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt. --- COPYING-LGPL | 31 ++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/COPYING-LGPL b/COPYING-LGPL index 8000a6fa..f6683e74 100644 --- a/COPYING-LGPL +++ b/COPYING-LGPL @@ -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 + Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ modified by someone else and passed on, the recipients should know that what they have is not the original version, so that the original author's reputation will not be affected by problems that might be introduced by others. - + Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the existence of any free program. We wish to make sure that a company cannot effectively restrict the users of a free program by obtaining a @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ modification follow. Pay close attention to the difference between a "work based on the library" and a "work that uses the library". The former contains code derived from the library, whereas the latter must be combined with the library in order to run. - + GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Library. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. - + 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Library or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Library, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ instead of to this License. (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you wish.) Do not make any other change in these notices. - + Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to all subsequent copies and derivative works made from that copy. @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Library will still fall under Section 6.) distribute the object code for the work under the terms of Section 6. Any executables containing that work also fall under Section 6, whether or not they are linked directly with the Library itself. - + 6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ restrictions of other proprietary libraries that do not normally accompany the operating system. Such a contradiction means you cannot use both them and the Library together in an executable that you distribute. - + 7. You may place library facilities that are a work based on the Library side-by-side in a single library together with other library facilities not covered by this License, and distribute such a combined @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License. - + 11. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Library does not specify a license version number, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. - + 14. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Library into other free programs whose distribution conditions are incompatible with these, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS - + How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest @@ -484,9 +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 . Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. @@ -495,10 +493,9 @@ school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the - library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random - Hacker. + library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker. - , 1 April 1990 - Ty Coon, President of Vice + , 1 April 1990 + Moe Ghoul, President of Vice That's all there is to it!