Flathub and Snap Store entries for KGeoTag

[Scarlett Moore]

So looking at https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/spdx/licenses.go

LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL is not recognized as a valid SPDX licence
in the snap world.
Either change it to GPL3 or I can manually put a license: field in the
snapcraft.yaml
Cheers,
Scarlett

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 2:47 AM Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de> wrote:
>
> 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 ...
>
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