Le jeu. 20 déc. 2018 à 12:33, Sven Hoexter <hoex...@debian.org> a écrit :

> 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
>

Another solution would be to distribute your software via Flatpak or Snap
which most distributions, including Debian, support very well.

Ghis

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