On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:40 PM Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:27:06PM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > The FSF address should be the most straightforward to fix. > > > Straightforward, but impossible for a pacakger. Because it's a part of the > license declaration, only an author can change it, as the license reads: > > [...]keep intact all the > notices that refer to this License [...] > > That's the reason why I consider this rpmlint warning quite unhelpful. > Do you mean the author of the software or the license? I've seen that debated over and over again and my understanding is that packagers are not supposed to patch the file, but upstream developers (which is the case here) should correct that error. Our wiki links to a version of GPL 2 with the correct address: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf-address _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
