Control: tags -1 wontfix 2016-05-15 10:24 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: > Package: gnome-software > Version: 3.20.2-2 > Severity: normal > > I still have xchat installed after it was removed from Debian (replaced > by hexchat) and gnome-software seems to think it is non-free even > though it is clearly not non-free. See below & the attached screenshot.
For stuff that is not in any repository *and* does not have an AppStream metainfo file containing licensing information, GNOME Software can not determine whether the software is free software. That's why it displays the "might be non-free" badge, and I'm afraid this issue can only be fixed in Xchat itself, by making it provide a metainfo file (so the License doesn't stay "unknown"), or by reintroducing it to a Debian repository (because we implicitly assume everything in Debian main is Free software). Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/