On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:40 PM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> 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
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