[kragen]

yes, i know about the microsoft apt source

as for building from source, i see, thanks! or maybe it's unresolved legal concerns? nobody so far in this thread has known of any, though

[MarkSweep]

I found someone requesting that it be added to Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/%3Ca%20href=%22bugreport.cgi...

So far no one has mentioned licensing being an issue.

[kragen]

that's great! possibly the link you meant was https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078132

that seems to be from only a few weeks ago though

it doesn't seem to have come up on debian-legal in the last year or so https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ but debian-legal is also kind of a shadow of its former self

[InfiniteRand]

Notably in that bug report the reporter says they cannot maintain it (not that I blame them, not a small work)

[Mogzol]

I doubt it is due to legal concerns if Ubuntu, Fedora, and FreeBSD are all distributing their own builds.

[kragen]

you could easily imagine fedora distributing their own build of software whose licensing fails to comply with the debian free software guidelines; bundling proprietary software used to be common in linux distributions in fact

[k_roy]

"legal concerns" is not the same as philosophy differences.