Flathub and Snap Store entries for KGeoTag

[Tobias Leupold]

Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2024, 11:08:34 CET schrieb 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

Thank you for the follow-up!

I meanwhile put "GPL-3.0-only" as the project license into the appdata.xml. I 
think this is the most appropriate SPD-X license, as -- as far as I can grasp 
it -- "LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL" is only KDE's backdoor to later approve 
(or refuse) a GPLv4 if there should be one in the future. So, effectively, 
this means that our stuff is licensed as GPL 3 only, isn't it?

At least, this is what Johannes did for KPhotoAlbum, and I think he has more 
insight of all that than me ;-)

It would be kind if you would put this into snapcraft.yaml at the correct 
place. I then also can adapt it for KPA.

Thanks in advance!

Apart from that, IMO those Snap and Flat guys should include LicenseRef-KDE-
Accepted-GPL. It's not that this is some strange vendor-specific commercial 
license. I mean, we're one of the Big Boys here, aren't we?! ;-)

Cheers, Tobias

> 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 ...