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It may be designed that way but in practice it’s misleading, especially the way it appears in the UI. It looks like a designation of origin of the package. Thes
by jahewson 5y ago
It may be designed that way but in practice it’s misleading, especially the way it appears in the UI. It looks like a designation of origin of the package. These are trademarks and can’t just be thrown around casually.
Why is there not at least a packager or maintainer field?
- charcircuit 5y ago>Why is there not at least a packager or maintainer field? On flathub the developer is the developer of the software being published and the publisher is the people who packaged it.
- jahewson 5y agoInteresting. Where can I find the publisher field?
- charcircuit 5y agoClick on an application on https://flathub.org/home https://flathub.org/home and ctrl + f
- JaggedJax 5y agoThis does not help much without doing further digging. I checked the "Steam" package and for me in Flathub I see a link to "See Details" for the publisher. Clicking on that takes me to the contributors page of their Flathub GitHub repo. Am I supposed to know if these are employees of the company or not? I am on mobile, so maybe there's more info on desktop? I see nothing indicating if this is official or not, other than a note at the bottom of the flathub description telling me it is not official, which seems strange for that to be the only place indicating that.