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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-software
Version: 41.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, hi!
I was looking, through Gnome-software, at some programs that are installed on
my Debian and to my surprise I came across something a little unusual.
In gnome-software when I accessed the "add-ons" option, then "codecs", I
noticed that the installed codecs said that the license for that lib/package
was "Private", but the origin of that package was "debian-bookworm-main ".
Out of curiosity I decided to look at the "copyright" file of that lib I was
looking at, through the terminal. All information obtained from the result were
free licenses.
The problem occurs with: libs "GStreamer", Sigil program, GnuCash, WinFF,
Brasero, OpenLP, etc...
The programs/libs I reported above were chosen at random in gnome-software and
for all these examples the free license type was expected.
In a way that made me a little worried. If a common user comes across one of
these packages and sees that the licenses are private, maybe he won't download
these programs... Or maybe a little worse, maybe the opposite can happen, when
the user verifies that the informed license is free but actually maybe a
proprietary/non-free program. :/
PS: Sorry for any grammar mistakes... I speak Portuguese. :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii appstream 0.14.6-1
ii apt-config-icons 0.14.6-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-2
ii gnome-software-common 41.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 41.0-1
ii libappstream4 0.14.6-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.32-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libfwupd2 1.5.7-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.6+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.70.0-1+b1
ii libgspell-1-2 1.8.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.30-3
ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 237-2
ii libhandy-1-0 1.4.0-1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libmalcontent-0-0 0.10.1-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.2-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.48.10+ds1-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-31
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.74.0-2
ii libxmlb2 0.3.2-1
ii packagekit 1.2.2-2
ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1
Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii fwupd 1.5.7-5
Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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