Flathub and Snap Store entries for KGeoTag

[Tobias Leupold]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2024, 00:12:06 CET schrieb Carl Schwan:
> On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 10:50:07 PM CET Tobias Leupold wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > As far as I can grasp it, https://apps.kde.org/de/kgeotag/ is
> > automatically
> > generated from KGeoTag's appdata.xml file. However, the site lists both
> > Flathub and the Snapcraft as a possible installation source for KGeoTag,
> > with "KDE" referenced as the publisher on both sites. I never used
> > neither,
> > so I don't know much about this besides those two are approaches to
> > provide
> > distribution independent packages, without relying on the respective
> > package manager.
> > 
> > But what this is about:
> > 
> > On Flathub, one can read "No changelog provided" and "Proprietary: This
> > app
> > is not developed in the open, so only its developers know how it works. It
> > may be insecure in ways that are hard to detect, and it may change without
> > oversight."
> > 
> > Obviously, neither is true ...
> 
> No changelog provided is true. You don't have any changelog in your
> appdata.xml, you can look at how we do this in NeoChat
> https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/blob/master/
> org.kde.neochat.appdata.xml?ref_type=heads#L407
> 
> Generally I recommend to follow the quality guidelines of Flathub
> https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/quality-gui
> delines/
> 
> For the proprietary part, I asked in the flatpak matrix channel and this is
> probably an issue with appstream-glib used by gnome software and flathub and
> that doesn't recognize LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL in your appdata.xml.
> Discover actually has the same issue...
> 
> I'm not sure we need to add the LicenseRef in the appstream file is actually
> needed. For the user it's interesting that the project is licensed under
> gpl 3 not that it could also potentially be licensed under gpl 4 in the
> future. This is an information only needed in your source code, I would say
> but INAL ;)
> > On Snapcraft, there's a similar "License: unset".
> 
> This is afaik not taken from the appstream file and doesn't affect only
> KGeoTag, the way I got this resolved in the past is to ask Jonathan to fix
> it ;)
> > How can this be fixed? Is there something I can do about this? By adding
> > something to the invent repo? Or somewhere else?
> > 
> > Thanks for all help!
> 
> I hope this helps :)
> Cheers,
> 
> Carl
> 
> > Cheers, Tobias

Thanks for all the information so far :-) I'll see what I can fix ...