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Update text of GPL to latest version from FSF

This mostly removes the postal address of the FSF.

This was triggered by rpmlint complaining about
that address being outdated.

Change-Id: Idfe5c615d1109a1038207c1c1b0e0de4da3279f5
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Message-Id: <20250803143939.15335-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg32475.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
(cherry picked from commit 632573834ab8b4ddfc7d940347ecff05fbf3ff4b)

Frank Lichtenheld authored on 2025/08/03 23:39:33
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                        Version 2, June 1991
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  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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- 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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+ <https://fsf.org/>
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  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
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     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
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-    as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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+    (at your option) any later version.
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     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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     GNU General Public License for more details.
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     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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-    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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-    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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+    with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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   `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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-  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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-  Ty Coon, President of Vice
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+  <signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1989
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+  Moe Ghoul, President of Vice
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 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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 proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may