add License: field to mirror package lists

[shawnlandden]

Binary package hint: apt

software-store currently doesn't display informations about licences . While there is an effort to make license information machine parsable: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ it is not in the downloaded package list so it can be displayed by the software center.

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

The latest software center will show if it is an open source license or not. Is this valuable enough?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

No, it isn't enough. See bug 435183.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

I have to agree with this. If a package has a copyright file that matches DEP5 formatting, it should be fairly trivial to extract the short license keys included and place them in a License: header for display in software selection tools like apt-cache show and software center. This would not significantly raise the size of the list, but would significantly improve the quality of software center for users (and could be used to improve awareness of open source licenses in general).

Given that, marking this as Confirmed, and setting Importance to Wishlist.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

If you want something on the server, don't file bugs against the client. That's not going to work.