For kdiff3 this would be a starting point. https://phabricator.kde.org/T9580
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020, 2:34 PM Martin Floeser <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > Am 2020-07-08 18:12, schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > > Recently we've noticed some KDE apps ending up on the Microsoft Store > > uploaded by unknown third parties. Maybe to up some credit score for > > their developer account. Maybe to install bitcoin miners. We don't > > know the motivations. Since it's all free software the licence allows > > it. > > Honestly I don't think we should try to get software from Microsoft > Store based on trademark. As you already notice our license allows this. > And even more on Linux it's the normal way that someone else distributes > our software. Back in the days SuSE even sold our software. It's even > common that our distributors apply patches to our software. So we > shouldn't treat the Microsoft Store different to Linux distributions. > > Granted I consider it as a huge problem that the Microsoft Store might > contain copies of our software with malware. But to that we have > solutions: the GPL. We can demand the source code from those > distributors. If they don't comply: even better, than we have something! > If they comply and our software is reproducible, we can verify that the > uploaded binary is not tampered with (and that it doesn't comply to > GPL). Yes, that puts work on our shoulders. If our software doesn't > build reproducible, we need to fix that. > > Otherwise I suggest that we bring all our software in the Microsoft > Store to ensure we at least uploaded it. If we have it uploaded and > someone else uploads it as well, we can still ask Microsoft to do > something about it. I hope that Microsoft is interested in not > distributing malware and removes copies of open source projects or adds > links to the original authors. After all Microsoft really tries to be on > the good side currently, so we should try ;-) > > Cheers > Martin >