** Changed in: snapd
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Title:
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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The behavior of snapd seems correct, in the sense different revisions of
the snap may have different licenses. "Rectifying" a license in a way
that future information affect past code seems very bogus in this
context.
With that said, we might have a special case for "unset".
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Not sure what combination I tried and failed, last weekend; I'm glad
it's working in snapcraft.
Now we need to sort it out in the store and snapd...
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That is correct, as evidenced by this test:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/tests/spread/general/license-valid/task.yaml
and this one
https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/tests/spread/general/license-invalid/task.yaml
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> I also believe that snapcraft *does* support license, but only when
actually running 3.x code (i.e. base: keyword is present).
huh, just tried again and it worked. Sweet.
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> The store treats it as if it were per snap, meaning that it lets a
publisher unilaterally change the license of something, which is not
ideal.
The license field is not authoritative, it reflects what license the
code is under. The store allows the publisher to rectify mistakes, and
update the
When the snap is installed a number of fields in `snap info` come from
the installed snap; license is one of these.
Unfortunately snapcraft still doesn't understand license (last tested
with 3.0 a few days ago building icdiff), so unless the developer has
gone out of their way and used
snapd seems to not understand the license that the store does, so that
when the snaps are installed it thinks the license is unset.
I correctly saw the license for both snaps when they were uninstalled:
$ snap info h2static sshoot | grep license
license: LGPL-3.0
license: GPL-3.0+
$ snap
