From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754687Ab3JFVdQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:33:16 -0400 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:37862 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753533Ab3JFVdP (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:33:15 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 50.43.39.152 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 14:33:09 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Joe Perches Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address Message-ID: <20131006213309.GO19510@leaf> References: <20131005184307.GA6429@leaf> <1380999108.2081.138.camel@joe-AO722> <20131006062739.GA5218@kroah.com> <20131006211855.GB19510@leaf> <1381094837.2081.160.camel@joe-AO722> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1381094837.2081.160.camel@joe-AO722> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2013-10-06 at 14:18 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:27:39PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 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. > [] > > any objections to merging the patch in its current form? > > Your own suggestion that this be applied only to > patches hasn't been implemented. Given Greg's comment that we want to eliminate the existing instances, I wanted to make sure implementing that change still makes sense. I can easily enough make checkpatch emit an ERROR for patches and a WARN or CHK for existing files, if that's the consensus. - Josh Triplett