Quoting FSDG: A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so.
We are not steering or encouraging users to do any thing by displaying the source url of the tarball, we are merely providing factual non-opinionated information. But I guess we aren't telling the full story and should tell the user that we made post download modifications to the tarball to comply with the free software distribution guidelines.