[Fedora-legal-list] incorrect fsf address

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Aug 5 15:58:56 UTC 2011


On 08/05/2011 06:45 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> Hello list,
> I run into rpmlint error about incorrect fsf address. My solution was
> report it to upstream and left incorrect address in my packages. I
> didn't block review of new packages because of it.
> Some maintainers are blocking reviews and they are patching license file
> with correct address.
> What's the correct solution? Could you post it on fedora-devel list?
>
> Rpmlint might offer better explanation or change it to warning:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700095

Incorrect FSF address is something that should be reported to upstreams. 
No further action is required of packagers, although, if a maintainer 
wishes to correct the address with a patch, they are certainly permitted 
to do so.

~tom

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