Re: FSF address in /usr/include/octave-3.6.2/octave/gl2ps.h

[Martin Helm]

Am 17.08.2012 01:31, schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 15-Aug-2012, Martin Helm wrote:
>
> | When doing rpm builds for 3.6.2 rpmlint always spits out that nasty
> warning | | [ 1977s] octave-devel.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address |
> /usr/include/octave-3.6.2/octave/gl2ps.h | [ 1977s] The Free Software
> Foundation address in this file seems to be | outdated or | [ 1977s]
> misspelled. Ask upstream to update the address, or if this is | a
> license file, | [ 1977s] possibly the entire file with a new copy
> available from the FSF. | | (same address is in my gl2ps.h from the
> development sources) | | What policy do we have for such 3rd party
> code? Can we simply change | that to the address | | Free Software
> Foundation | 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor | Boston, MA 02110-1301
> | USA | | instead of what it shows now | | Free Software Foundation,
> Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA | | If such a change is
> ok, I'll happily send a patch. | If that was already somewhere
> discussed and I missed that, then sorry | for the noise.
>
> Instead of the street address, I recommend using
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>
> But in any case, the policy for updating gl2ps is that we copy from
> upstream. Please ask them to change it, then we can update our
> copy. Updating our copy and not fixing the problem upstream means
> that we will have to make this change each time we update our copy of
> the gl2ps files.
>
> jwe

Thanks, that was not completely clear to me that it is not somehow
forked but just copied. I sent a change request upstream to
address@hidden, which is mentioned for bug reports. So far this is solved.