We have considered open source however it's not suitable for this particular project, since our decoding algorithms are valuable intellectual property that our business rivals might gain an advantage from and we would therefore not want to offer that for free. Rather our purpose with including this software in your repo is more to make it widely available and easily installed from a trusted source.
On 28 sep. 2017 10:44 +0200, Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>, wrote:
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?
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Cheers,
Andrew