Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:20:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Pardon me if I miss something, but is it prudent to alter upstream's license without their permission in the source? Granted, it's just an address change which may not change the

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Pardon me if I miss something, but is it prudent to alter upstream's license without their permission in the source? Granted, it's just an address change which may not change the constraints and

Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Matt Kraai
Hi, Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I fix this address? If so, should I fix it in both the copyright file and the source code? Or in only one place? -- Matt Kraai https://ftbfs.org/kraai

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:13:34 -0700 Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org wrote: Hi, Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I fix this address? If so, should I fix it in both the copyright file and the

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Ben Finney
Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org writes: Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I fix this address? If so, should I fix it in both the copyright file and the source code? Or in only one place? Yes,

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:57:18PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org writes: Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I fix this address? If so, should I fix it in both the

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:57:18 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org writes: Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I fix this address? If so, should I

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes: Pardon me if I miss something, but is it prudent to alter upstream's license without their permission in the source? Granted, it's just an address change which may not change the constraints and restriction imposed by the license itself, but I