![]() The social contract clearly states "Our priorities are our users and free software". Each of these serves to describe what the Debian Project does, and more importantly, doesn't do. More to the point: if you pick the right distribution, there's at least a stated policy of not doing crap like this.ĭebian has a social contract ( ), a constitution ( ), and a policy ( ). For your case you could probably mandate that distribution of a binary installer with your application name must be your official installer. This only applies to the program itself however, not the installer. If you do modify it, you have to turn off branding, and you get a generic globe icon with the development name. If you take a look at Mozilla Firefox, it can only be branded as such if it hasn't been modified. You can control the branding of your application so only the official bundle can be distributed under your applications's name. Having open source software only means that you have to provide a way to get the source (for example, a download link, or an email address to contact note you don't have to provide the source itself directly). ![]() Tl dr of link: C&D bundling of EasyBCD with installers and downloaders or pull the listing. We will be forwarding this to any and all download sites we find bundling EasyBCD with their intrusive downloaders and installers, as that goes explicitly against the products' licensing agreements, which are there to prevent exactly this type of behavior. I have just sent CNet a "cease and desist"-ish open letter, which we've also published on our blog. either host the unaltered EXE or pull their listing. Unlike nmap and others, we actually have a legal right to demand that CNet, et. The benefit of our freeware not being open source is that we retain full control over distribution and packaging. ![]() I'm debating whether or not to pull the application listing. I think Softpedia and FileHippo are the only big sites left not doing this ridiculous practice. I just found that my application which was updated last week and is the 10th most popular system utility app on is also being similarly bundled. ![]()
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