Incorrect FSF Address error from rpmlint

[Alec Leamas]

On 2014-12-23 20:28, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> I'm getting an incorrect FSF address when I'm building a package.
>
> I checked here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf-address
>
> and built the package with the recommended file.  Still get the error.
>
> I checked the address with FSF, and what is in the COPYING file matches:
> http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/
>
> I then checked bugzilla and found:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700095
>
> which as been open since April, 2011.
>
> Am I missing something here?  If there is indeed an error that I'm 
> missing I would
> like to understand it so I can notify upstream to do the right thing.  
> If this is just
> a rpmlint glitch it really should be addressed - otherwise people tend 
> to start ignoring
> the errors and warnings.
>
>
The check is not only  applied to  COPYING but also to the license text 
in source files. Have you checked those?


Cheers!

--alec