which windows versions?
Oh that makes more sense, I was in iOS world with my head. Never mind what I said :s.
True, MS store is very laggy and unresponsive on my PC, And installing a 6GB game just takes 15 to 20 GB of my C drive, then I manually need to shift it in other drives. I don’t know if this is because of too much power on my CPU or the unstable update.
…or anybody that has support for open source imagery on their mind rather than profit only. I have no idea if there is a cost involved listing on the MS Store, or what the legal issues are. So at this point I don’t even know if that seller makes money there. Would be interesting to see the sale figures though.
There are maybe ways to opt out, but there are probably many that prefer that type of safety. Really no issue for somebody that is very computer literate, but not everybody is. Look at how many get ransom-ware attacks and stuff like that.
Code signing for windows 10 involves buying a code signing certificate, plus jumping through some hoops. Code signing certificates cost ~ $100US +. To sell on MS store you have to sign up for the partner program (there’s a free level) and obligate yourself (i.e. agree to a bunch of stuff that you probably don’t really want to agree to so they can spam you 
).
It seems there are free code signing certificates for opensource, in case you are interested.
(Well there were free, now they charge 14$ per year, not too much).
The certificate in question is now more than $77 per year… In market where “typical” code signing cert is from $59…
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This post seems to imply publishing is now free:
This doesn’t work any more but this moron doesn’t give up: Microsoft Apps.
There are another guy doing the same*hit: Microsoft Apps.
Hello,
Has the Darktable logo been registered?
Greetings from Brussels
Christian
why? darktable is gpl so it can be forked modified and even packaged commercially.
Quite more interesting is that the package is named LightRoom - even the usage of an uppercase R doesn’t prevent it violating adobes trademark.
So if they doesn’t bother why wasting time here and give more publicity to that?
Yes, they have the right to package it commercially provided they also offer the corresponding source code (possibly for a nominal fee to cover costs). No mention of that in those offers…
And as neither of the offers shows any contact information…
who cares …
if a buyer tries to find support he will find out that he wasted money for quite old stuff no one supports
Other than the potential reputational damage to the real darktable.
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Where’s the reputation damage? There’re no issues reported from users of that stuff and even in here there’s just complaining about an app no one uses 
you know Streisand effect?
People will buy that version of the app, run into problems, get no help from the “vendor” and never even think / know to look elsewhere for help, a newer version, etc. All they’ll “know” is they bought darktable and it was “garbage”. That’s what they’ll tell their friends. We’ll never know of it here.
That’s not good for anyone. Reputation takes a hit and we never even know it.
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At the end of the day, the only persons able to take action (as far as it goes) are the darktable copyright owners. All I wanted to do was indicate why action was possible, even under the GPL (look up “busybox” ).
who is copyright owner in a copyleft legal framework?
darktable/LICENSE at master · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub permits commercial use, modification, distribution …
you can buy the app and resell it - and that dude can’t stop you from doing this …
Every contributor, unless they performed copyright assignment as a part of contribution, whether through a CLA or other assignment process. (Did you know that the champion of copyleft frameworks requests that contributors assign copyright? Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation )
Yeah but that doesn’t make a difference if we are talking about trying to stop someone who only trys to profit without giving anything back, as in this case.
We would need a trademark infringement filed for the dt logo. GPL et al do nothing to stop this.
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