Am Di., 25. Juni 2019 um 10:15 Uhr schrieb Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>:
>
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 09:31:44 +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
> > Also, it seems clear to me that the same game in all Linux disros is
> > very likely to get the same rating, so this would be better done as a
> > distribution agnostic level
>
> Appstream metadata, which is canonically provided by upstreams and is
> distro- and package-type-agnostic (available in at least apt and Flatpak),
> has this as an optional field for self-rating:
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-content_rating
> https://hughsie.github.io/oars/
>
> I suspect that's the only way this could possibly work without money
> changing hands.
Indeed :-) Also, metainfo files can be written for every software
component, not only for apps (although I thing GUI applications are
the things age-rating is most relevant for).
If any features in this are missing, let me or Richard Hughes know.
Cheers,
Matthias
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