Bug#824383: gnome-software: packages not installed from repositories are claimed to be non-free

[Matthias Klumpp]

2016-05-15 18:36 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>:
> On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 18:22 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>
>> For stuff that is not in any repository *and* does not have an
>> AppStream metainfo file containing licensing information, GNOME
>> Software can not determine whether the software is free software.
>> That's why it displays the "might be non-free" badge, and I'm afraid
>> this issue can only be fixed in Xchat itself, by making it provide a
>> metainfo file (so the License doesn't stay "unknown"), or by
>> reintroducing it to a Debian repository (because we implicitly assume
>> everything in Debian main is Free software).
>
> The requisite metadata is available (Debian Section), why can't
> gnome-software pay attention to that information??

Where would that (machine readable) metadata be? Parsing
debian/copyright files is impractical, especially if they are not
machine-readable (which is the case with Xchat).