Bug#996538: gnome-software: Shows wrong type of license

yes 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>

-- no debconf information



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