Ubuntu software center lists Wesnoth as proprietary

[Pentarctagon]

Wesnoth is not under a proprietary license and should not be listed as such in the Ubuntu software center.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and making Ubuntu better.

I can confirm that wesnoth-1.14 is wrongly listed with proprietary license in Ubuntu Software on Ubuntu 21.04. I remember seeing reports for other open source packages also listed with wrong license, but I don't know if there's a common root cause for these.

Btw, when reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. This will automatically add information such as version numbers. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

I have no clue how that is chosen. Where does that come from, is there something within the package to do, because I wouldn't know how the software center decides that. I rather thinkt his might be something within software center to explain why it thinks so, for now I have no clue how to adjust that.

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

How does the `project_license` tag in Wesnoths AppStream MetaInfo file look like? Because that's the thing that is looked at to determine whether the license is free.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

There is no appstream metainfo file installed (so far, I noticed that upstream ships one so I'll install it in the future). Finding that out was quite a huge digging around, it's not well documented or visible.

The package though is in Debian main/Ubuntu Universe, and thus implicitly is clearly free software. So the software center not recognising those sections seems to be a flaw in the way the software center tags packages where it can't find a metainfo file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wesnoth-1.14 - 1:1.14.17-2

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wesnoth-1.14 (1:1.14.17-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Install appstream metainfo file (LP: #1926104)

 -- Rhonda D'Vine <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:19:46 +0200