Hi Felipe,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:47:02AM -0200, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> but why?
Much of this information is outdated. There's some reasoning behind this in
the patch adding the check in scripts/checkpatch.pl:
commit 4783f894d0f3bfb107cf3b1d9aed1f1a0672ee1d
Author: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
Date: Tue Nov 12 15:10:12 2013 -0800
checkpatch.pl: check for the FSF mailing address
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.
Make this an error for new code, but just a --strict CHK in --file mode;
anyone interested in doing tree-wide cleanups of this form can enable this
test explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
The address can be found in COPYING in the root of the kernel tree.
>
> 2016-10-28 10:43 GMT-02:00 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>:
> > Drop the FSF's postal address from the source code files that typically
> > contain mostly the license text. The patch has been created with the
> > following command without manual edits:
> >
> > git grep -l "675 Mass Ave\|59 Temple Place\|51 Franklin St" -- \
> > drivers/media/ include/media|while read i; do i=$i perl -e '
> > open(F,"< $ENV{i}");
> > $a=join("", <F>);
> > $a =~ s/[ \t]*\*\n.*You should.*\n.*along with.*\n.*(\n.*USA.*$)?\n//m
> > && $a =~ s/(^.*)Or, (point your browser to) /$1To obtain the
> > license, $2\n$1/m;
> > close(F);
> > open(F, "> $ENV{i}");
> > print F $a;
> > close(F);'; done
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found this in a few places and decided to remove them all. The script
> > could be useful elsewhere, too.
> >
> > The actual patch can be found here, it appears to be too large to be
> > accepted by vger:
> >
> > <URL:http://git.retiisi.org.uk/?p=~sailus/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=refs/heads/fsf-address>
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Kind regards,
Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ai...@iki.fi XMPP: sai...@retiisi.org.uk
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