[PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Martin Kepplinger]

A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having this
still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.

Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.

As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace the
postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm directory.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
---
 mm/kmemleak-test.c | 3 +--
 mm/kmemleak.c      | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak-test.c b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
index dd3c23a801b1..9a13ad2c0cca 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak-test.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
  * GNU General Public License for more details.
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "kmemleak: " fmt
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e4738d5e9b8c..e6d6d3c9f543 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
  * GNU General Public License for more details.
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  *
  *
  * For more information on the algorithm and kmemleak usage, please see
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Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 14-11-17 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having this
> still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
> 
> Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
> 
> As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace the
> postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm directory.

Why to change this now? Isn't there a general plan to move to SPDX?
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SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Martin Kepplinger]

Am 14.11.2017 10:49 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> On Tue 14-11-17 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having 
>> this
>> still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
>> 
>> Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
>> 
>> As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace 
>> the
>> postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm 
>> directory.
> 
> Why to change this now? Isn't there a general plan to move to SPDX?

Shouldn't a move to SPDX only be additions to what we currently have? 
That's
at least what the "reuse" project suggests, see 
https://reuse.software/practices/
with "Don’t remove existing headers, but only add to them."

thanks

                                        martin

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Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 14-11-17 10:55:35, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> Am 14.11.2017 10:49 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> > On Tue 14-11-17 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > > A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having
> > > this
> > > still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
> > > 
> > > Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
> > > 
> > > As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace
> > > the
> > > postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm
> > > directory.
> > 
> > Why to change this now? Isn't there a general plan to move to SPDX?
> 
> Shouldn't a move to SPDX only be additions to what we currently have? That's
> at least what the "reuse" project suggests, see
> https://reuse.software/practices/
> with "Dona??t remove existing headers, but only add to them."

I thought the primary motivation was to unify _all_ headers and get rid
of all the duplication. (aside from files which do not have any license
which is under discussion elsewhere).
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Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Martin Kepplinger]

Am 14.11.2017 11:02 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> On Tue 14-11-17 10:55:35, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> Am 14.11.2017 10:49 schrieb Michal Hocko:
>> > On Tue 14-11-17 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> > > A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having
>> > > this
>> > > still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
>> > >
>> > > Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
>> > >
>> > > As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace
>> > > the
>> > > postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm
>> > > directory.
>> >
>> > Why to change this now? Isn't there a general plan to move to SPDX?
>> 
>> Shouldn't a move to SPDX only be additions to what we currently have? 
>> That's
>> at least what the "reuse" project suggests, see
>> https://reuse.software/practices/
>> with "Don’t remove existing headers, but only add to them."
> 
> I thought the primary motivation was to unify _all_ headers and get rid
> of all the duplication. (aside from files which do not have any license
> which is under discussion elsewhere).

I doubt that this can be fully accieved in the long run :) It'd be nice 
of course in
some way.

But I also doubt that it'd be so easy to remove the permission 
statements.
The FSF who's license we use suggest to have them, but others do too.
And as mentioned, "using SPDX" doesn't imply "not having permission
statements".

But I think that's off-topic actually. Moving to SPDX could still be 
done in
any way whatsoever after this. This change fixes a *mistake* and can 
reduce
confusion or even support license compliance, who knows :)

thanks
                                         martin

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Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

[Pavel Machek]

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On Tue 2017-11-14 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having this
> still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
> 
> Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
> 
> As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace the
> postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> ---
>  mm/kmemleak-test.c | 3 +--
>  mm/kmemleak.c      | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak-test.c b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
> index dd3c23a801b1..9a13ad2c0cca 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak-test.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
> @@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
>   * GNU General Public License for more details.
>   *
>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> - * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> - * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
> + * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   */
>  

With all the SPDX work, I don't think this is useful. Talk to Greg?

We do ship copy of GPL, so perhaps the paragraph can be just deleted?

If not, maybe it should be http_s_?
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