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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrea Pappacoda
49fa751953
chore: use MIT license for appstream metadata
The Appstream metadata file introduced in commit
335612cfa4
has been submitted as licensed under the CC0-1.0 license. People
generally use the CC0-1.0 to put the file in the "public domain", but
this isn't actually possible in lots of countries, so the file ends up
being licensed under CC0's fallback permissive license; unfortunately,
the fallback license contains some terms that are seen as problematic to
some (notably, Fedora has recently decided to consider the license
pretty much non-free).

As foot is already MIT-licensed, and since this license is in the list
of allowed [metadata licenses], this patch changes the license of the
metadata file from CC0-1.0 to MIT.

[metadata licenses]: https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-metadata_license
2022-10-27 13:58:52 +02:00
Vladimír Magyar
335612cfa4
chore: add appstream file
Appstream file is usefull for many package management tools to show
additional metadata and screenshots.
Also it would solve the packaging for flathub.

References: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1129#issuecomment-602089
2022-09-18 17:57:06 +02:00