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

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Hi Martin,

Indeed, this has been fixed in SVN a while ago. Do you think it warrants a new "official" release ?

Cheers,

Christophe

On 17 Aug 2012, at 01:42, Martin Helm <martin at mhelm.de> wrote:

> 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 | outdated or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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
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