Bug 637712
| Summary: | RFE: rpmlint should check for address of FSF in files containing GPL license | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Miroslav Suchý <msuchy> |
| Component: | rpmlint | Assignee: | Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | manuel.wolfshant, tmz, ville.skytta |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-01 03:26:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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No objections, just some thoughts and data points in no particular order in case someone thinks of implementing this: 1) Should probably check for outdated LGPL copies as well. 2) "licensecheck" from the rpmdevtools package (originates from Debian's devscripts) can already do this; if nothing else, its regex could be "borrowed". Or perhaps even make rpmlint use licensecheck under the hood. $ licensecheck /usr/bin/intltool-prepare /usr/bin/intltool-prepare: GPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 3) The warning message identifier and description should be carefully constructed. I don't think it would be appropriate for packagers to start fixing these (modifying license/copyright info); instead they should ask upstreams to take care of it. 4) It would be useful to do this for other files besides %doc, however it might be quite slow if done for *all* files. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. Done upstream, will be in the next release: http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1842 rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14 rpmlint-1.2-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpmlint-1.2-1.fc15 rpmlint-1.2-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpmlint-1.2-1.fc13 Package rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14 then log in and leave karma (feedback). rpmlint-1.2-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. rpmlint-1.2-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. rpmlint-1.2-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: A lot of packages contain GPL license with old address of FSF. E.g: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA In license is section where user may require copy by snail mail, but that address is non funcional. New address is: Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Rpmlint should check in files %doc section for strings containing both GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE and 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA and give warning that this address should be updated. Probably by downloading new version of this licence from FSF web.