Licensing guidelines for AppStream project_license

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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#tag-project_license

Otto
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