Bug#996538: gnome-software: Shows wrong type of license
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yuri.musachio at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 03:48:52 BST 2021
Package: gnome-software
Version: 41.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, hi!
I was looking, through Gnome-software, at some programs that are installed on my Debian and to my surprise I came across something a little unusual.
In gnome-software when I accessed the "add-ons" option, then "codecs", I noticed that the installed codecs said that the license for that lib/package was "Private", but the origin of that package was "debian-bookworm-main ".
Out of curiosity I decided to look at the "copyright" file of that lib I was looking at, through the terminal. All information obtained from the result were free licenses.
The problem occurs with: libs "GStreamer", Sigil program, GnuCash, WinFF, Brasero, OpenLP, etc...
The programs/libs I reported above were chosen at random in gnome-software and for all these examples the free license type was expected.
In a way that made me a little worried. If a common user comes across one of these packages and sees that the licenses are private, maybe he won't download these programs... Or maybe a little worse, maybe the opposite can happen, when the user verifies that the informed license is free but actually maybe a proprietary/non-free program. :/
PS: Sorry for any grammar mistakes... I speak Portuguese. :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii appstream 0.14.6-1
ii apt-config-icons 0.14.6-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-2
ii gnome-software-common 41.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 41.0-1
ii libappstream4 0.14.6-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.32-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libfwupd2 1.5.7-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.6+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.0-1+b1
ii libgspell-1-2 1.8.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.30-3
ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 237-2
ii libhandy-1-0 1.4.0-1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libmalcontent-0-0 0.10.1-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.2-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.48.10+ds1-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-31
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.74.0-2
ii libxmlb2 0.3.2-1
ii packagekit 1.2.2-2
ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1
Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii fwupd 1.5.7-5
Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none>
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