Bug 158853

Summary: the MSI and deb archives could provide the main license in a single format
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Jérôme <jerome.bouat>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: cloph, stephane.guillou
Priority: medium    
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha0+   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158852
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Bug Blocks: 97991, 113358    

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