From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 23:27:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131006062739.GA5218@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380999108.2081.138.camel@joe-AO722>
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 11:43 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
> > directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the
> > FSF has moved in the past and may do so again.
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -1859,6 +1859,16 @@ sub process {
> > $rpt_cleaners = 1;
> > }
> >
> > +# Check for FSF mailing addresses.
> > + if ($rawline =~ /You should have received a copy/ ||
>
> There are over 9,000 of these in the tree.
>
> > + $rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ ||
>
> Over 7,000
>
> > + $rawline =~ /59 Temple Place/ ||
>
> Over 3,500
>
> > + $rawline =~ /51 Franklin Street/) {
>
> Over 1,500
Then we should remove them all. I know some FSF members have tried to
do a sweep of the kernel tree at times to at least get rid of the old
physical address, but it looks like that didn't work very well.
I don't want to see this get worse over time, Josh, thanks for doing
this checkpatch patch.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-06 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-05 18:43 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address Josh Triplett
2013-10-05 18:51 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-05 19:03 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 6:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-10-06 7:01 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 7:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 8:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 13:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 19:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 19:19 ` Rob Landley
2013-10-06 21:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:18 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:27 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 21:33 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:48 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 22:23 ` [PATCHv2] " Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 23:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 23:16 ` Joe Perches
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