Bug #95735 for Date-Calc-XS: license contains incorrect fsf address

Sat May 17 10:18:21 2014 NIERLEIN [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

license contains incorrect fsf address

While trying to package this module for fedora 21, rpmlint complains about incorrect fsf address in the files: license/GNU_GPL.txt license/GNU_LGPL.txt See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf-address The correct address according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt is: Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Sat Mar 07 12:00:28 2015 STBEY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Sat May 17 10:18:21 2014, NIERLEIN wrote: Show quoted text

> While trying to package this module for fedora 21, rpmlint complains > about > incorrect fsf address in the files: > license/GNU_GPL.txt > license/GNU_LGPL.txt > > See: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#incorrect-fsf- > address > > The correct address according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old- > licenses/gpl-2.0.txt > is: > Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., > 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

The GPL and LGPL license files I'm adding are very old. Probably they are simply outdated wrt the correct address. However, if I remember correctly, it says somewhere "or any later license", doesn't it? So any later license with the correct address applies, and you are free to put your code and my code under a newer version of the license. And even if it doesn't say so, I am herewith giving you the permission to use any later version of the GPL or LGPL (whichever applies) instead of the one provided in the distribution. I must admit that I don't care much about this, for me the important thing is that the code works reliably, and while this is the case I don't see the need to make an effort to fix such formalities... :-)

Sat Mar 07 12:00:29 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'