Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I am amazed that such old addresses are still found in software. > The ones on Mass Ave were used over 20 years ago. > > Would you like to draft an announcement for posting > to give people clear instructions for what to change?
I'm happy to draft an announcement/recommendation on this, maybe it should go to the FSF community blog? https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ A first step would be to fix our own occurances of the old address usages, such as in old GPL license texts -- then we can point to them as having been updated as a reference, and that everyone should switch to using URLs. Without doing that, I fear any announcement will be self-contradictory in that it points to license texts that recommends postal addresses and will be different from what the announcement says. The GNU webmaster responded that they deferred to the copyright/licensing team on this, so we'll see what they respond. Also it is possible that some of the links are not to the latest version of the source code file -- however, my point was more about finding the format of different license headers, to write a regexp. Finding occurances of the latest version of some source code (still in use) that uses old FSF addresses is left as homework... :) /Simon
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