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
