FreeFileSync Forum

That's unfortunate, but thank you for your response, Zenju. I'll make the necessary changes on Flathub. The installer is of course not shown when installing the flatpak, it's similar to installing e.g. rpm/deb packages.

I understand it is difficult to make money on an opensource project. But I ...

Please let's keep this thread on-topic, and wait for Zenju's response, thank you.

Again, IANAL, but in general, I'm pretty sure the *program authors* can distribute program binaries under a completely different license than the sources, that's their decision. Of course, if the project links to some strong copyleft libraries, then the resulting binary must reflect that. But ...

Hello,
I'm the maintainer of the FFS flatpak package distributed by Flathub:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

In the past, I compiled FFS from source, but due to various problems (like FFS depending on custom-patched system libraries, and others) I switched to ...

The root requirement is the reason why I haven't upgraded to FFS 11.6 yet and I'll need to start looking for an alternative file synchronizer, if the requirement is not lifted. It is unfortunate, because I like FFS. But I only trust my Linux distribution to install apps as root on my system, through ...