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by ahbs66 2964 days ago
>For example, the 2048buntu snap was submitted as proprietary, so we can't actually see the package contents, except for the init script which you can see above.

Unless the Snap Store uses some kind of DRM, I don't see how that can be the case. Just install it and see the contents in your filesystem?

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It probably refers to distribution of binaries without source code, which MIT license allows. Wording could be better
All snaps appear as "proprietary" because there is not functionality to specify the license in the package yet. Apparently it is work in progress, trying to decide whether to allow free text licences or support a set of license and then allow to pick one from the list.
Presumably they mean they can't see the source code.