Software licenses are listed as "open source"

Bug #675822 reported by spearson
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

When selecting software from the ubuntu software center, the field "software license" is often populated by the phrase "open source", which is not a software license. This field should be populated by the name of the applicable software licence (gpl, etc).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 15 19:23:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

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spearson (sam-ed-pearson) wrote :
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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote :

Hi Sam! Thanks for your bug report. The bug you describe is being tracked in an already existing bug report, so I will mark this bug as a duplicate of the other one. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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