Andreas Metzler

No worries, this is a beautification fix. ;-) According to https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ the FSF indeed is no longer located at Temple Place.

Could you please update the FSF address (URL instead of outdated postal one) as per adjusted patch? (LICENSE.txt refreshed from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt )

Could you please apply the attached patch, using Del's newer address in both places and fixing a typo.

Del wrote If you're not going to at least recognise the original author of the tkCVS software in the Debian package then please do not include tkCVS in Debian, at all. Hello Del, this is now fixed in Debian/unstable and the fix should also make it into the next Debian stable release (version 13 aka trixie). https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tkcvs/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads (I have also made some progress updating to newer upstream.) cu Andreas

The upshot here is what might you be looking for as pertains to an updated Copyright list? A correct list of copyright holders serves at least two important purposes: Relicensing is impossible if the copyright holders are not known and cannot be contacted to give their permission to relicense. It is also hard to enforce a license if the actual authors are not known. Attribution: IMHO it is just a matter of basic politeness to state whom the users might be grateful to. e.g. I recently was made aware...

Hello, sorry in hindsight I see that my report should have been more verbose: I looked at the licenses/copyright info and found that it obviously had not seen any update for 20 years while SVN showed more than 150 changes after that. That could not be right. Looking over the commiters I saw that their number was small (no one-commit authors) and therefore suggested the list above. I did not do a full in depth review. I am no lawyer either but the FSF site has some guidance where the bar for a copyright...

Hello Dorothy, thanks for the work in progress in SVN. Did you get the copyright holders listed below from a different source or did you copy them over from the Debian-list in my original posting? I intentionally left them out in my proposal https://sourceforge.net/p/tkcvs/bugs/160/#0cf9 since I only found references to their work in tkdiff or contrib subdirectories and the list we are trying to build here excludes those: contrib/tkdirdiff - Paul Mackerras tkdiff - John M. Klassa. - D. Richard Hipp...

The missing Debian package update is unrelated (maintainer fell off the grid). I do not think this is too impossible to resolve, afaiui you as current main contributor and Dan have a food working relationship. What is missing is gathering the data and properly documenting the situation. How about adding a new AUTHORS file with a text like this? TkCVS was originally written by Del <del@babel.matra.com.au> and released as public domain. In <insert year - was it 2004?> Dorothy Robinson took over maintainership....