Adding AppData files for frameworks

James purpleidea at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 15:14:20 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right, MatthiasK is quite keen for upstream libraries to ship
> metainfo.xml files as well, which potentially could include the
> license there. If we added metainfo files to all the libraries used in
> a framework (!) then it would be a simple job to just deduplicate all
> the same ones, and AND them all together. We could even do the
> "GPL+Apache->GPL" simplification programatically.

I'll volunteer to write that simplification lib if it's wanted in a
language that's not c. It's actually probably just a set of fairly
straightforward table lookups.



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