Re: recommended copyright stanza?

[Eric Blake]

Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> writes:

> 
>     Gary Vaughan just submitted a patch to Libtool to point to the URL for the
>     GPL in addition to the ability to request it by post:
> 
> Ah.  There have been several versions of this floating around, e.g.,
> coreutils has another variant text. 
> 
> The last time we had this discussion was back in August 2006 (see the
> archives for all the background).  We ended up thinking of proposing
> this to rms (and it is what I used in hello 2.2):
> 
>   hello (GNU hello) 2.1.90

You are confusing --version output (which also could be standardized in 
maintainer.texi) with my request for the copyright comment that should be 
placed at the top of each source file.

> 
> I think it is better not to include the physical address of the FSF.  I
> think there is no need to do so, since rms has never done it for his own
> programs.  As we all know, the physical address is a lot less stable
> than the electronic ones.

The physical address of the FSF should remain in the source code comments; 
Gary's patch only added a web address in addition to the physical address.  But 
I agree that the physical address need not appear in the --version output.

-- 
Eric Blake