Ubuntu software center lists Wesnoth as proprietary

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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