Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-06-05 16:00 - 17:30 UTC)

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> * Please consider requiring AppData for all desktop applications -
>   https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/414  (spot, 16:21:21)
>   * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/414#comment:3
>     (abadger1999, 16:22:49)
>   * In the guidelines about adding AppData, please include the
>     requirement for metadata licenses to match the upstream code license
>     if we're creating the AppData file.  (abadger1999, 17:07:28)

Well, I'm not quite sure I got the point. From [1]:

> <metadata_license/>
>
> The <metadata_license> tag is indicating the content license that you
> are releasing the AppData text file and screenshots as. This is not
> typically the same as the project license. (...) Permissible license
> codes include:
>
> CC0-1.0
> CC-BY-3.0
> (...)
>
> The old name for this tag was <licence/> and was changed for two
> reasons. It used the British English spelling, and also that it
> wasn't clear that the license given wasn't the project license, but
> rather the license for the metadata only.
>
> <project_license/>
>
> The <project_license> tag is indicating the licenses that you used
> for the application and any data or media files used. This is not
> typically the same as the metadata license. (...)

I.e. metadata license to be the same as upstream code license is not
possible, giving that only *content* licenses are valid for this tag.

Also read:

> This is not typically the same as the project license.

Giving that, I'd say your proposition is wrong.

[1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

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