From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.6 0/2] Replace FSF street address with canonical URL
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:57:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B9F51A.4040708@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438166118.11600.195.camel@citrix.com>
On 29/07/15 11:35, Ian Campbell wrote:
> We currently have numerous variations on the FSF's addresses, old, new and
> plain incorrect (there was a buggy version in circulation at one time).
>
> The current recommendation in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
> is to use "If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."
>
> I care about this because in the process of splitting up libxenctrl I found
> myself copying a lot of incorrect boiler plate to new files, which is just
> silly.
>
> Patch #2 is completely automated (see description in patch) but it is still
> a pain to keep regenerating. Wei, would you be willing to accept this into
> 4.6? It is heavily automated and mechanical and so I think it is low risk.
> On the flip side doing this during the freeze means I'm not constantly
> playing catchup with new files.
>
> The second patch is large (260K), which I suspect it may not make it to the
> list, hence what I will send here will be an abridged version. The full
> patch is at the URL below.
>
> Since this is mechanical I'm only CCing THE REST maintainers and Wei (RM),
> I think collecting all the acks from all the maintainers is unnecessary in
> this case.
>
> Ian.
>
>
> The following changes since commit 44313ab77f3e3c5b566ea4f23b0e32bfd5eafa29:
>
> tools/libxl: Do not fire the stream callback multiple times (2015-07-28 14:02:18 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/xen.git fsf-address-v1
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 443701ef0c7ff30872e27419cf4356fb6bdb4059:
>
> Replace FSF street address with canonical URL (2015-07-29 11:14:07 +0100)
Looks good. I don't think this warrants acks from every maintainer on
the list of touched files. This is a mechanical change unrelated to the
code content of the files.
~Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-30 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-29 10:35 [PATCH for-4.6 0/2] Replace FSF street address with canonical URL Ian Campbell
2015-07-29 10:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] stubdom: Replace FSF street address with canonical URL in patches Ian Campbell
2015-07-29 10:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] Replace FSF street address with canonical URL Ian Campbell
2015-07-29 11:36 ` [PATCH for-4.6 0/2] " Wei Liu
2015-07-30 9:56 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-30 15:01 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-30 9:57 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
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