vendor/choosealicense.com/_licenses/gpl-2.0.txt in licensee-9.2.1 vs vendor/choosealicense.com/_licenses/gpl-2.0.txt in licensee-9.3.0
- old
+ new
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
title: GNU General Public License v2.0
spdx-id: GPL-2.0
nickname: GNU GPLv2
redirect_from: /licenses/gpl-v2/
-source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
+source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
hidden: false
description: The GNU GPL is the most widely used free software license and has a strong copyleft requirement. When distributing derived works, the source code of the work must be made available under the same license. There are multiple variants of the GNU GPL, each with different requirements.
how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file.
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
---
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., <http://fsf.org/>
+ 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.
Preamble
@@ -324,12 +324,12 @@
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
- {description}
- Copyright (C) {year} {fullname}
+ <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
+ Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
@@ -363,10 +363,10 @@
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
- {signature of Ty Coon}, 1 April 1989
+ <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the