Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] FSF office adddress update

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Simon Josefsson via gnu-prog-discuss wrote:
> Jason Self <jself@gnu.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>   
> > 31 Milk Street # 960789
> > Note that according to USPS standardized abbreviations it
> > should be Milk St.
> >     
>
> I can't find any occurance for this one -- presumably because few
> maintainers used time machines for preparing license headers.
>   

I say that it should still be included, in case someone gets the address 
update and ... updates the address instead of changing the notice to the 
new style with a WWW address.

> I think a regexp like this should cover it all:
>
> (Mass Ave|Massachusetts Ave|Temple Pl|Franklin St|Milk St)
>
> It covers 'Temple Pl' that I couldn't find any occurances for, and 'Milk
> St' for future problems.
>   

Interesting that the abbreviations turn out to also be prefixes.

> I found a couple of pre-franklin addresses in some projects this way.
>
> I've pushed the attached patch to gnulib.  Hopefully false positives are
> rare but please provide feedback and maybe we can improve the regexp.
>   

I would suggest improving the message to explain that the FSF office 
moves occasionally, but the URL should remain stable for the foreseeable 
future.


-- Jacob