GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769895
incorrect-fsf-address
Last modified: 2016-09-02 16:16:32 UTC
Hi Rpmlint complains about a single file having outdated/wrong fsf address. [ 149s] RPMLINT report: [ 149s] =============== [ 150s] libgtksourceview-3_0-1.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/jade.lang [ 150s] The Free Software Foundation address in this file seems to be outdated or [ 150s] misspelled. Ask upstream to update the address, or if this is a license file, [ 150s] possibly the entire file with a new copy available from the FSF.
Fixed in commit 69459971d2e66c848a49c4f92fcf053ba18ec7e2. Thanks for the bug report. Do you know if for the LGPLv2.1 we can replace the FSF address by an URL to gnu.org? Like this: > You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License > along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. At https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html#SEC4 "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries" the FSF address is used, not the URL. But for version 3, it's the URL. So I wonder if for the 2.1 version we can also use the URL.
(In reply to Sébastien Wilmet from comment #1) > Fixed in commit 69459971d2e66c848a49c4f92fcf053ba18ec7e2. Thanks for the bug > report. > > Do you know if for the LGPLv2.1 we can replace the FSF address by an URL to > gnu.org? Like this: > > > You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License > > along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > > At https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html#SEC4 > "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries" > the FSF address is used, not the URL. But for version 3, it's the URL. So I > wonder if for the 2.1 version we can also use the URL. No idea if that would be ok or not unfortunately. But thanks a lot for the quick fix!
Ok, maybe one day I'll subscribe to a suitable mailing list and ask the question. In the meantime, it's not a big problem.
For the record, it is possible, even for LGPLv2.1, to link to gnu.org instead of the FSF's postal mailing address. See: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2016-September/msg00000.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2016-September/msg00003.html