Bug 158853 - the MSI and deb archives could provide the main license in a single format
Summary: the MSI and deb archives could provide the main license in a single format
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
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24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Win-Installer-Smaller Installer-Linux
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Reported: 2023-12-24 17:52 UTC by Jérôme
Modified: 2024-01-08 20:14 UTC (History)
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Description Jérôme 2023-12-24 17:52:35 UTC 
In the LibreOfficeDev_24.8.0.0.alpha0_Win_x86-64.msi archive, the license is provided in 2 formats :
./LibreOfficeDev 24:./LICENSE.html
./LibreOfficeDev 24:./license.txt

The main MSI archive could provide a single format (html ?).
Comment 1 Jérôme 2023-12-25 19:52:42 UTC 
In libreofficedev24.8_24.8.0.0.alpha0-1_amd64.deb archive, the license is provided in 2 formats (txt and html) :
opt/libreofficedev24.8/LICENSE
opt/libreofficedev24.8/LICENSE.html
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-01-08 09:19:17 UTC 
Cloph, what do you think?
I guess plain text is useful to simple / headless setups where plain text is preferred (and possibly required as a format by licences and/or libraries), and HTML is preferred for improved readability when accessing if from the GUI (Help > License Information > Show License).
To me, not a bug.
Comment 3 Jérôme 2024-01-08 20:14:41 UTC 
At the end of the installation process, Libreoffice itself can convert the html license into a text version :
libreoffice --convert-to "txt:Text (encoded):UTF8" LICENSE.html