Distributors entering Flatpakland

* The filtering by license should be improved, it appears how fedora was doing it was a bit hacky
* yep, and I think flathub lists SPDX identifiers too, so you can distinguish between GPL-2.0-only and GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0 only or GPL-3.0 only and so forth.
* Yeah, many users might, but on the other hand they are using a free platform with (extremely importantly) a free "appstore" and distribution mechanism.
* Yep, and perhaps many non-technical people will want to use a free platform because they want to escape from having the platform try and sell them things, especially things sold by the platform vendor.
* I agree, and I think flathub and the gnome-software experience do a pretty decent job, the banner is a pretty simple red indicator in the "app details"

The other nice thing is that flatpak will prevent non-free apps from screwing up the system by incorrectly attempting to do applocal deployment of their runtime dependencies. It's really rather hard to do this correctly on linux (and can be nearly _impossible_ if you end up with libraries that load tightly coupled plugins and are too enthusiastic in their search for them). Let's just say if I still had to support Matlab installations I would absolutely make a flatpak and distribute it that way.

I suppose making bundling in this way easy does make it easier to distribute proprietary apps (after all, proprietary rpm/dpkg repos are .... not usually worthwhile or reliable)