Bug#877056: ITP: fr24feed -- Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On 28 September 2017 at 10:13, Viacheslav Kalmykov <slava@fr24.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Viacheslav Kalmykov <slava@fr24.com>
>
> * Package name    : fr24feed
>   Version         : 1.0.19-2
>   Upstream Author : Flightradar24 <support@fr24.com>
> * URL             : https://www.flightradar24.com/
> * License         : http://repo.feed.flightradar24.com/LICENSE.fr24feed.txt
>   Programming Lang: C++, shell
>   Description     : Flightradar24 Decoder & Feeder lets you effortlessly share ADS-B data with Flightradar24. It supports multiple receivers, the DVB-T stick, and makes the entire feeding process as smooth as possible.
>
> We at Flightradar24.com offer our feeders software for x86 / ARM Linux platforms which we currently package as .deb packages through our own APT repository.
> As our userbase grows, we thought that it might be better for our users to skip manual step of adding yet another repository to their system.
> Therefore we ask if it would be possible to include our feeder package to the non free part of Debian repository.
>
> Majority of our users run the software on Raspbian OS on Raspberry Pi. However, we aim to support any Debian-based OS, including Debian itself and Ubuntu.
>
> We plan to maintain and support the package ourselves as a company.

Have you considered making it free software? Is there any reason really not to?

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew