Evil download URL

[Douglas E. Warner]

I'm working on updating gpsbabel to the new version but upstream has removed 
all direct download links to the source.  Through watching HTTP headers I was 
able to find the a download URL like this:

http://www.gpsbabel.org/plan9.php?dl=gpsbabel-1.3.5.tar.gz

This makes rpmbuild unhappy if I include it as the Source0 since it thinks the 
file is "plan9.php?dl=gpsbabel-1.3.5.tar.gz", and moreover I'm subverting 
upstream's distribution system by using this (and it could easily be changed 
again).

What are people's recommendations for dealing with this?  I've asked the dev 
if there is a direct download link but they said that there wasn't; they 
wanted to present the "project" rather than "a pile of bits".

Should I just put a comment in the docs as to where the source can be 
downloaded and point at the local source?

-Doug
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