Adding AppData files for frameworks

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Fri Jan 8 14:24:07 UTC 2016


On fre, 2016-01-08 at 11:02 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 8 January 2016 at 10:50, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > 
> > >   <project_license>GPL-2.0+</project_license>
> > 
> > This is tricky. The runtime is a combination of many licenses. What
> > should it show? All? The major ones? None? "Various"?
> 
> Wel, gnome-software needs to decide if it's free or non-free so we
> can
> label it in the UI. "Various" is going to be understood as nonfree by
> the parser if it's not a valid SPDX license ID. I think it's a pain,
> but I think listing them all is the only way to go here, legally.

Well, this is a *lot* of work. I'm not looking forward to it. I guess
it just something that needs to be done though.

> > I can just put it in the gnome-sdk-image git repo:
> > Gnome people should be able to translate it there, no?
> 
> Sure thing! We'd need something similar for the freedesktop one too I
> guess.

Yeah. Not sure what the translation story is there.

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