[gl2ps] Fwd: FSF address in /usr/include/octave-3.6.2/octave/gl2ps.h

[Martin Helm]

Dear gl2ps maintainers,

I ran across the following problem (not a show stopper but a but
unpleasant) that everytime I do rpm builds for openSUSE rpmlint spits
out a warning about a wrong FSF address in gl2ps.h.
See below.
Since that file is also included in GNU Octave where the maintainers
fetch that from upstream (you) I first reported it to them accidentialy
since I was not aware of that.
Can you simply change the address to a valid one

| Free Software Foundation
| 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
| Boston, MA 02110-1301
| USA

or replace the corresponding part with something neutral like the web
address which is unlikely to change?

<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>

That would make packaging somewhat easier, since there is then no longer
a need to intentionally suppress license warnings.

Kind regards
Martin Helm


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: 	FSF address in /usr/include/octave-3.6.2/octave/gl2ps.h
Datum: 	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:31:27 -0400
Von: 	John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org>
An: 	Martin Helm <martin at mhelm.de>
Kopie (CC): 	octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave.org>



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| outdated or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