From: Todd Zullinger Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:49:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices Message-ID: <20171113194921.GP5144@zaya.teonanacatl.net> In-Reply-To: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams