On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 4:19 PM Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:50:03 +0100 Lorenzo Bertini 
> <lorenzobertin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > LyX is listed on my system as proprietary software in gnome-software. 
> > Looking online I found several people having this issue with other 
> > programs, and the cause was always that the license couldn't be read by 
> > gnome-software properly.
> >
> > Please ensure that gnome-software can properly read the license. If the bug 
> > is not on our end, let me know and I will contact gnome-software developers.
>
> Well, LyX installs it's licences where it should, i.e. into
> /usr/share/doc/lyx/copyright.
> If there is something specific WRT gnome, we can do it but we need
> gnome maintainers input... I don't use gnome personally so can't
> even test it.
>
> I CC maintainer of gnome-software if he has some hints for us.

The GNOME Software app prefers to use AppStream metadata.

https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

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