Almost all free software has "nonfree" tag

[Wise Melon]

On the latest version of GNOME Software on both Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2 and Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 Beta 2 with GNOME 3.20 I have found something rather strange, seemingly almost all of the free software has the "nonfree" tag... Not all of it, but mostly all the software I have installed there and was installed by default (such as Firefox, the default PDF viewer, Nautilus, and other FOSS software):

    nonfree_Tag_All_SG.png

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I reported the issue upstream but this was the reply:

"This is unfortunately a downstream issue, as Ubuntu are patching in the aptd plugin. This works around some applications not having AppData files, but Ubuntu are not always shipping the newest version of upstream software which does ship an AppData file. For some apps the AppData file is not upstream, which does need fixing in the upstream project."

So this is a downstream issue...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-software - 3.20.1+git20160414.1.cc9a0a6.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1

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gnome-software (3.20.1+git20160414.1.cc9a0a6.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot from the wip/iainl/ubuntu-xenial branch at
    git://git.gnome.org/gnome-software.
    + Uses libapt instead of manual parsing to find out about Debian packages.
    + Runs the background service again for firmware and other updates. (LP:
    #1565865)
    + Fixes use-after-free (LP: #1554164)
    + Should mark software as 'free' correctly. (LP: #1569328, #1568021)
  * All Ubuntu patches are in the orig.tar.xz, so have been dropped from the
    packaging.
  * debian/control: Add libapt-pkg-dev BD - the apt plugin now uses libapt
    directly instead of parsing files itself.
  * debian/README.source: Add info on where the upstream VCS with Ubuntu
    changes is.

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:15:33 +0100

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Marking fixed to close