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I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)


I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said

Dealing with open source software, I regularly encounter many kinds of licenses — MIT, Apache, BSD, GPL being the most prominent — and I’ve taken time out to read them. After a few weeks of waiting, I eventually received the ‘African Daisy global forever vert pair’ stamp which was round! I completely forgot that the US, Canada, and a few other countries don’t follow the standard international paper sizes, even though I had earlier.

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