copyrights still referencing the old postal FSF address

Collin Funk collin.funk1@gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 01:32:16 GMT 2025


Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:

> noticed first in newlib, and posted that at
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2025/022183.html
>
> is this something to change in binutils, and how would a patch look
> like for that? in a script doing the changes, or as a complete patch?

Most of the GNU projects maintained by Gnulib committers changed them to
use text like this a year ago (or earlier):

diff --git a/tests/test-dfa-match-aux.c b/tests/test-dfa-match-aux.c
index 112f9dd918..3a66bc62ef 100644
--- a/tests/test-dfa-match-aux.c
+++ b/tests/test-dfa-match-aux.c
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
    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.  */
+   along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

I know we have a regex to catch a few of the old addresses:

    '(Mass Ave|Massachusetts Ave|Temple Pl|Franklin St|Milk St)'

But I forget if someone wrote a script to automatically convert them.
I'll check and send one here if I find it.

Collin


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