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

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On 29 September 2017 at 17:32, Viacheslav Kalmykov <slava@fr24.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure it is fair to use infrastructure of a free software
project such as Debian as a platform to distribute your non-free
software, especially considering you base it on free software packages
such as librtlsdr and dump1090. We'd welcome it as if it were free
software, but I see no benefit to Debian or Debian users from it as it
is now.

If anything, I'd vote against inclusion of such software even into non-free.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew