Things that are not «features» of an app:
- The license
- The technologies it uses
- The fact that it’s simple
- The application it’s an alternative to
Your app should be compelling on its own. What makes it worth using? How can it help people? Highlight those things instead!
- The license
- The technologies it uses
- The fact that it’s simple
- The application it’s an alternative to
Your app should be compelling on its own. What makes it worth using? How can it help people? Highlight those things instead!
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in reply to Brage Fuglseth • • •Cassidy James Blaede
in reply to Abandoned • • •there is a difference between:
• An app store summary (as pictured in the thread)
• A README
• Project license fields in AppStream
A software license probably makes sense to mention in a README, and any AppStream-using app store will show license information pulled from the appropriate AppStream tags. You don’t need to put it in the summary which is treated like a headline. 😉
Nobody is suggesting you *refuse* to communicate anything.
Abandoned
in reply to Cassidy James Blaede • • •I think you've missed the point I was trying to make.
Though now you bring it up. Why are app stores showing the specific license. That seems a bit too specific for user focused UI.
Michael Downey 🚩
in reply to Abandoned • • •But those users are the other party of the license, i.e., the agreement is between the developer(s) and the software's users.
gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.htm…
In a modern technocentric society, it's very important for people to understand the terms of their use of software that mediates their daily life.
(That said, I'm a big advocate for plain-language explanation of license terms!)
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in reply to Michael Downey 🚩 • • •@downey @doctormo this, exactly. :)
GNOME Software, anyway, doesn’t expose specific license details in a technical way—it uses it as one of many signals to show off the app. If it has a FOSS license, it's *one* of the components that gives it a nice big ✅ for "Safety" (and it exposes the actual license if you dig in for details).
I do think the collaborative/community-based nature is a great thing for an app's description, fwiw, especially if it is unique among its peers.
Michael Downey 🚩
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As soon as you download it, you've made a copy.
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