Done - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823599

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 12:50, Bob Hepple <bob.hep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <ppi...@redhat.com> 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 <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?
> >
> > 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
> >
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