debian: Point at GNU website for full GPL text

Message ID 20260603124708.3834-1-valter.jansons@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit b346e3143a5f192c3055193e554779db5dc2d145
Headers
Series debian: Point at GNU website for full GPL text |

Commit Message

Valters Jansons 3 Jun 2026, 12:47 p.m. UTC
The FSF mailing address is outdated and should not be referenced in
copyright license text, as no response will be received from it.
Instead, the GNU website can be used for obtaining license text.

Ref: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file.html
Signed-off-by: Valters Jansons <valter.jansons@gmail.com>
---
 debian/copyright | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 2877361..8e555c1 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -507,8 +507,7 @@  License: GPL-2+
  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/>.
  .
  On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
  License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
@@ -520,8 +519,7 @@  License: LGPL-2.1+
  your option) any later version.
  .
  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser 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.
+ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  .
  The complete text of the GNU General Public License
  can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 file.