How about this patch? Not all projects are copyright'ed by the FSF. The patch makes it possible to override the otherwise hard-coded string, thought cfg.mk and without modifying the update-copyright script iself.
/Simon diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1ba0366..17115d4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2011-01-02 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> + + * build-aux/update-copyright: Support UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER + environment variable. + 2011-01-01 Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> Rename uc_is_grapheme_cluster_break() to uc_is_grapheme_break() diff --git a/build-aux/update-copyright b/build-aux/update-copyright index 51546cc..cd89c3e 100755 --- a/build-aux/update-copyright +++ b/build-aux/update-copyright @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -wS -0777 -pi "$0" ${1+"$@"}' if 0; # Update an FSF copyright year list to include the current year. -my $VERSION = '2009-12-28.11:09'; # UTC +my $VERSION = '2011-01-02.09:54'; # UTC # Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # @@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ use warnings; my $copyright_re = 'Copyright'; my $circle_c_re = '(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright{}|©)'; -my $holder = 'Free Software Foundation, Inc.'; +my $holder = $ENV{UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER}; +!$holder + and $holder = 'Free Software Foundation, Inc.'; my $prefix_max = 5; my $margin = $ENV{UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH}; !$margin || $margin !~ m/^\d+$/ @@ -252,7 +254,7 @@ if (defined $stmt_re) } else { - print STDERR "$ARGV: warning: FSF copyright statement not found\n"; + print STDERR "$ARGV: warning: copyright statement not found\n"; } # Local variables: