Icofx package broken author removed source

[CollinChaffin]

This company made this commercial quite a long time ago and the killed the distribution of the older free version and since this nuget package just tries to pull their installer, it is (and has been) broken for a long time.

Just curious, I see many packages hosted in your repo, did you have to get permission from each product's author/company to distribute whether included in your local packages, or linked to their source (which I would think probably does not require any permission)?

[ferventcoder]

Just curious, I see many packages hosted in your repo, did you have to get permission from each product's author/company to distribute whether included in your local packages, or linked to their source (which I would think probably does not require any permission)?

Most of the packages here end up on the public Chocolatey community package repository, which is subject to distribution rights / copyright law. That means those packages can not typically include the software binaries unless the the software license specifically allows it.

[CollinChaffin]

Ahh, thanks was curious how it worked. So if I understand correctly in case I wanted to help with any packages, it sounds like what you are saying is that many cannot include their actual binary installers INSIDE the nuget package however IF the choco package only LINKS to a DOWNLOAD of their installer to the users' machine during the install routine, that process is different than "distributing" and we can perform THAT type of install to wget and install just about ANY package, without requiring basically ANY permissions because we are not technically distributing anything. Am I understanding correctly?

Thanks again for clarifying!

[ferventcoder]

Redistributing by definition means you would have a copy of the software binaries that you would then distribute. However a script downloading from the official distribution point at runtime is very similar to what you would do manually. And this only applies to packages that end up in a public domain, like the community package repository. So you are pretty much spot on. HTH