Well I eventually woke up, got out of bed and read my email!! I'll fix up the address and rebuild, no problemo. Cheers Bob On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 01:06, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:51:04PM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > 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? > > Author of the software. Author can replace the license declaration as well the > license text. > > > 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. > > Exactly. > > > Our wiki links to a version of > > GPL 2 with the correct address: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf-address > > That's a new revision of GPL 2. Author of the license, updates it whenever he > moves to a different place. That's fine. Author of the software just copies > the updated revision into his software. That's also fine. > > -- Petr > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
