Description: AppStream is a cross-distro effort for building aoftware-center applications. It provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for (Linux) distributions.

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# AppStream

## Infrastructure for distro-agnostic application-management tools

Edition 1

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### Matthias Klumpp

Debian
`mak@debian.org`

### Michael Vogt

Canonical / Ubuntu / Debian
`mvo@ubuntu.com`

### Richard Hughes

Fedora / RedHat
`richard@hughsie.com`

### Vincent Untz

OpenSUSE
`vuntz@opensuse.org`

# Legal Notice

Copyright © 2012-2013 the AppStream team. This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), V1.2 with no invariant sections or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt).

###### Abstract

AppStream is a cross-distro effort for building aoftware-center applications. It provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for (Linux) distributions.

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