<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">Hello, So, if an independent Distro wanted to supply their users with their own appstore they could just set up a webserver an fork the Ubuntu-appstore? Would this even be legal, or could you only put the FreeSoftware Apps in your store? And how would you make sure they are the correct Binaries, build from the correct source? In LP you can build "reproducable" Snaps, but if you would build an independent appstore, you would have to find all the different locations where the developers put their source and the corresponding .yaml files to be sure that your Snaps correctly and veritably build. Wouldn't it make sense for snaps under an OS Licenses to be obliged by snapcraft to upload their .yaml files, so someone could verify they pull from the right repo, e.g github? Or maybe upload the whole source code like in Debian, to avoid fork-ability issues. The Snap store is a really great distribution tool for proprietary apps ATM , but OS apps have slightly other requirements, and not being forced to upload your source code, could lead potentially to bad practice or even malware being included in snaps. Max PS: sry if you are seeing this twice </div> </body> </html>