Re: Changelog question for the FSF address change

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Kelley Cook wrote:

> In my local tree, I've updated all the files copyrights with the new FSF
> address (a.k.a. GNU Public License 2, rev 3).  This change has already been
> preapproved.  I figured committing this in the lull of the GCC Summit would be
> a good time as any.

You've included the files with the address before last (which I listed in 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg02881.html>)?  And made sure 
you aren't changing any notices in generated files which come from 
software such as autoconf and would be changed back at next regeneration 
(there may not be such notices because of the more liberal licences used 
on such code, but in general regenerating rather than modifying generated 
files is safer here).  And made sure you're only changing code imported 
from elsewhere (e.g. libtool) where the upstream location has already made 
the change, or imported a new upstream version rather than changing the 
local copy at all if that's the policy we follow for the particular file 
(e.g. config.sub, config.guess aren't changed locally at all)?

It will be necessary to be vigilant for the old address being reintroduced 
by merges from branches or private trees.  Consider changing the address 
also on development branches for files which were added on those branches.

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