Show ACTUAL license in output of "flatpak remote-info" or on flathub

Allan Day allanpday at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 13:41:49 UTC 2019


Jorge GarcĂ­a <jgarciao at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> I was just working on this yesterday (finishing a PR by Dafnik). This is how it will work:
>
> Proprietary Apps: just show Proprietary (example: Spotify)
> Open source apps with short license value: show the license(s) (example: GIMP)
> Open source apps with long license value: show dialog (example: Darktable)
>
> It's already working in the dev server (you can try it using the above links) and it will be in production in the near future

We created something very similar in GNOME - in Software oftware there
are licence types, a system for allocating apps to each type, text to
describe what each type means. I would encourage you to steal our work
rather than doing it all over again. :)

Allan


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