Remove 3rd party / non-free license warnings and just show license as Unknown

[Robert Ancell]

[Impact]
GNOME Software currently shows a large warning about software being 3rd party / non-free when the license information is shown. This is occurring for all snaps due to bug 1555567. This is misleading and would be simpler to just state the license is "Unknown".

[Test Case]
1. Open GNOME Software and select a snap (e.g. moon-buggy)

Expected result:
moon-buggy is shown with an unknown license.

Observed result:
A large warning is shown about it being 3rd party / non-free.

[Regression potential]
Low. We now hide the warning and show the license field even when it is unkown.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Robert, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-software into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Robert, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-software into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1~xenial1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could you add some details about the steps you took to verify the fix and for which release you verified?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I completed the test case successfully on Ubuntu (Unity) 16.04 and Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with gnome-software from -proposed.

moon-buggy shows as License Unkown

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-software - 3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1~xenial1

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gnome-software (3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1~xenial1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot from the wip/ubuntu branch at
    git://git.gnome.org/gnome-software.
    - Hide 3rd party / non-free license warnings and just show as "Unknown"
      (LP: #1662750)
    - Add handler for snap:// URLs (LP: #1621971)
    - Hide .desktop file from startup applications (LP: #1662749)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:07:16 +1300

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-software has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-software - 3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1

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gnome-software (3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot from the wip/ubuntu branch at
    git://git.gnome.org/gnome-software.
    - Hide 3rd party / non-free license warnings and just show as "Unknown"
      (LP: #1662750)
    - Add handler for snap:// URLs (LP: #1621971)
    - Hide .desktop file from startup applications (LP: #1662749)
  * debian/control:
    - Update Vcs-Bzr link

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:07:16 +1300