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

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:13:44 +0200 Viacheslav Kalmykov  
wrote:> * License : 
http://repo.feed.flightradar24.com/LICENSE.fr24feed.txt


This license is ridiculously restrictive. It would not even allow for 
Debian to distribute the software.


Unless you can relicense the software then this has no place in the 
Debian archives.


While technically non-free is not part of Debian and doesn't need to be 
DFSG compliant, I would also still be unhappy if the license were to be 
Debian specific, any new license should be applicable to anyone 
obtaining a copy of the software.


Thanks,
Iain.

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

[Andrew Shadura]

Hi,

On 29 September 2017 at 17:32, Viacheslav Kalmykov  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

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

[Viacheslav Kalmykov]

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 , wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28 September 2017 at 10:13, Viacheslav Kalmykov  wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Viacheslav Kalmykov  >
> > * Package name : fr24feed
> > Version : 1.0.19-2
> > Upstream Author : Flightradar24  > * 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

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

[Andrew Shadura]

Hi,

On 28 September 2017 at 10:13, Viacheslav Kalmykov  wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Viacheslav Kalmykov 
>
> * Package name: fr24feed
>   Version : 1.0.19-2
>   Upstream Author : Flightradar24 
> * 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

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

[Viacheslav Kalmykov]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Viacheslav Kalmykov 

* Package name: fr24feed
  Version : 1.0.19-2
  Upstream Author : Flightradar24 
* 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.