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That reminds me on the time the FSF moved, they changed their address, and the open source product I worked on had to change their address in the license notice

That reminds me on the time the FSF moved, they changed their address, and the open source product I worked on had to change their address in the license notices in our product: https://github.com/moritz/otrs/commit/e845575e1848fd0124fb8d77e250fc33baccd4e0 https://github.com/moritz/otrs/commit/e845575e1848fd0124fb8d... And of course, as happens more often, this issue was raised to us by Debian developers, who care a great deal about 'correctness'

craniumslows 1y ago
The FSF offices have moved again if you weren't aware. The new address is Free Software Foundation 31 Milk Street, # 960789 Boston, MA 02196 USA https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/mailing https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/mailing
- collinfunk 1y ago
  In Gnulib we distribute and use the license with just a link to <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ https://www.gnu.org/licenses/> [1]. I would just use that. Many GNU projects use a rule that will fail 'make distcheck' when it sees an address in the sources [2]. [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=bf31b26be8574bd64fbd7e5456740d7d029b311c https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=bf31... [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=086c5c1c67b379ffcdbad47460e1366a35f8b8c0 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=086c...
  - pabs3 1y ago
    Hmm, I wonder if there is a linter somewhere for copyright notice and license grant smells. Made a note to add an fsf-address check to check-all-the-things.