Bug#916859: closed by Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> (Re: Bug#916859: RFS: PDF Studio Viewer/2018 [ITP] -- pdf viewer)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:12:39PM -0500, Studio Support wrote:
> Hello Andrey,
>
> Regarding the solution on Bug#916859 about our package "pdfstudioviewer"
>
> It's free in the real sense of the term, meaning that users don't pay for it. But it is not open source. Our end-user license is displayed to users upon running our application the first time.
>
> We don't care if our application is listed under the Free or the Commercial products.
>
> We have a Debian installer so I hope you can use that.
Hi,
I, and propably many more Debian developers, appreciate that you try to engange
with the Debian project, but really we're focused on open source software. You might
want to read https://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
So yes it's true that we have this sad part called "non-free" on our mirrors but formally
it's not really part of the distribution, and still everything shipped in non-free requires
to have a source package as well. https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/SourcePackage
In the end I can only encourage you to open source your software, otherwise you've to move
on and distribute it via your own self hosted repository.
Sven
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