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Re: recommended copyright stanza?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: recommended copyright stanza? |
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:43:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> writes:
>
> Gary Vaughan just submitted a patch to Libtool to point to the URL for the
> GPL in addition to the ability to request it by post:
>
> Ah. There have been several versions of this floating around, e.g.,
> coreutils has another variant text.
>
> The last time we had this discussion was back in August 2006 (see the
> archives for all the background). We ended up thinking of proposing
> this to rms (and it is what I used in hello 2.2):
>
> hello (GNU hello) 2.1.90
You are confusing --version output (which also could be standardized in
maintainer.texi) with my request for the copyright comment that should be
placed at the top of each source file.
>
> I think it is better not to include the physical address of the FSF. I
> think there is no need to do so, since rms has never done it for his own
> programs. As we all know, the physical address is a lot less stable
> than the electronic ones.
The physical address of the FSF should remain in the source code comments;
Gary's patch only added a web address in addition to the physical address. But
I agree that the physical address need not appear in the --version output.
--
Eric Blake