I've been thinking about the mechanics of FOSS app stores. If you don't
want to handle the payments, you need to implement a kind of
payment-authentication, where the principle is the same as dealing with
private packages. Instead the key being used is a key that is derived
from a successful payment.
On 6/07/2016 8:57 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
On 6 July 2016 at 12:50, Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6 July 2016 at 12:27, Profpatsch <[email protected]> wrote:
Free software doesn’t mean it is free as in free beer.
There are a couple of (very good) applications, that are
sold, like for example Ardour or Radium.
They are normally distributed as binaries, but come with
the source code (as required by their license).
I think nixpkgs should include them as well (if only because
executing the pre-built binaries on nixos is impossible),
but I also think it is ethically questionable to skip the
buying process.
I’m at a loss.
One improvement we can do is making it easier to run pre-built
binaries. Right now you have to create a Nix file with
pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv and pass in a lot of data[1].
And what about those new distro-independent packaging formats?
appimage, flatpak, ...? It'd be really nice to be able to run those.
- Bjørn
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