Hello packagers,
During the package review of qvge [1], the following question came up:
Are the any requirements placed on the contents of AppStream metadata,
particularly the field project_license [2]? It feels natural that is
MUST be the same (module differences in notation) as specfile License,
since both have the same meaning. However, I cannot find anything in
Licensing Guidelines about this.
In my experience, this comes up quite often, since upstreams often have
bundled dependencies or other copy-pasted code with different license
than upstream's own code, yet AppStream metadata, LICENSE file, README
and so only list upstream's own license.
[1]:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913870
[2]:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#ta...
Otto