Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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>