[Bf-committers] Incorrect fsf street addresses in licence files

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 07:04:14 CEST 2011


Hi Dave, corrected r37689 & r2050 of extension repo.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Dave Plater <dplater at webafrica.org.za> wrote:
> Hi, I just thought I'd pass this on, openSUSE build service now has a licence check on the fly for packages and it produced this message
> with blender-2.57b, I usually just insert a downloaded license with the spec file :
> blender-doc.noarch: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/doc/packages/blender/GPL-license.txt
> blender.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/blender/2.57/scripts/addons/modules/extensions_framework/util.py
> blender.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/blender/2.57/scripts/addons/io_coat3D/coat.py
> blender.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/blender/2.57/scripts/addons/game_engine_save_as_runtime.py
> blender.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/blender/2.57/scripts/addons/system_blend_info.py
> blender.x86_64: W: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/blender/2.57/scripts/addons/space_view3d_3d_navigation.py
> The Free Software Foundation address in this file seems to be outdated or
> misspelled.  Ask upstream to update the address, or if this is a license file,
> possibly the entire file with a new copy available from the FSF.
>
> It's usually an old GPL-2.0 license. There will also be a full legal review when I've eventually coaxed python-3.2 into factory and then
> 11.4 because blender hasn't been reviewed before, it's a virtual minefield when you actively maintain all multimedia. I believe it's an
> inter distro move to become legally "Free Software Foundation". That's why I haven't had a chance to patch blender-2.57b for python 3.1 and
> it's only available from my home repo along with python3-3.2 :
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plater:/blender/openSUSE_11.4
> There's also a 1 click install :
> http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/home:plater:blender/openSUSE_11.4/blender.ymp?base=openSUSE%3A11.4&query=blender
>
> Regards
> Dave Plater
> openSUSE blender maintainer.
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- Campbell


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