Re: [PATCH/RFC] Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices

[Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This change probably makes sense.  From here on after applying the 
> patch, we won't have to worry about updating these every time they 
> move---not that they have moved often, though ;-)

Indeed.  It's thankfully a rare move.  I imagine that's why it's 
somewhat common to find license text with the previous address long 
after the last move.  (That and how boring licensing details are, in 
general.)

>>  compat/obstack.c                                                | 5 ++--- 
>>  ... 
>>  ewah/ewok_rlw.h                                                 | 3 +-- 
>>  git-gui/git-gui.sh                                              | 3 +-- 
>>  imap-send.c                                                     | 3 +-- 
>>  ... 
>>  44 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
>
> I've tried hard to keep the git-gui/ part as a separate project (it 
> indeed is managed separately).  I have been, and am still only 
> pulling from its "upstream" repository (Pat, who is its project 
> lead, Cc'ed), refaining from making changes that do not exist there 
> at git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git/ to the tree I publish.
>
> I'll separate the part from this patch that touches git-gui/* and 
> try to arrange the next pull from git-gui repository would have the 
> omitted part somehow.  Given that the "upstream" seems to be inactive 
> these days, we might want to change the way we manage that part of 
> the tree, though.

D'oh, I should have known that.  Thanks for splitting this up.  I was 
worried more minor things like legal details or changing code that we 
synced from another project (compat/regex or xdiff) might require some 
changes and didn't think enough about git-gui being separate.

> Thanks.

Thank you too.  It's always impressive to see how well you wear the 
maintainer hat. :)

-- 
Todd
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