I was doing some review work this morning, and as part of that, I started taking a deeper look at gnome-app-install. Currently, this is on the blacklist because it recommends nonfree software. I wanted to learn a little more about how that could be fixed -- it seems like a nice enough program otherwise, and it'd be nice to be able to keep it.
On gNewSense, at least, it looks like gnome-app-install just presents packages based on what's (a) available from the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list, and (b) listed in one of the files in /usr/share/app-install/desktop -- which is all included in the app-install-data package. I believe if you prepare a new app-install-data package that does not include .desktop files for nonfree programs, things will be fine. Some initial testing (removing a file from this directory, running update-app-install, and running gnome-app-install) seems to confirm this. I plan to update the blacklist to reflect the fact that the problem lies with app-install-data and not gnome-app-install. Putting together a new version of app-install-data for the various distributions would probably be some nice low-hanging fruit interested contributors could work on. Any questions or comments about this, let me know. -- Brett Smith Licensing Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation Support the FSF by becoming an Associate Member: http://fsf.org/jf
