Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store

Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by aritmo on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:26PM (#17055589)

There is no support for specifying the license yet, so all snap packages appear as "proprietary".

Nothing to look here.

edit: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snap-license-metadata/856/53 Still it is unresolved, they probably use the deprecated licence feature in VLC.

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by popey on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:43PM (#17055662)

You can. The store used to default to "Proprietary" if the developer didn't set it. Now we default to "Unknown" if not specified by the developer.

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by evand on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:35PM (#17055633)

That is not true. You absolutely can specify a license: https://snapcraft.io/vlc

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by amenod on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:47PM (#17055683)

Off topic: why would someone install VLC over Snap instead of the version from Ubuntu repos?

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by popey on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:52PM (#17055700)

Because the same snap can run on releases of Ubuntu all the way back to 14.04. 14.04 has VLC 2.1 in the repo. 16.04 LTS has VLC 2.2. The snap store has 3.0.1 in the stable channel, with 4.0 (dev release) in the edge channel. Versions that will never be in the archive of those older releases.

As LTS releases age, the contents of the repo age with them. PPAs are one solution, but they're undiscoverable and not straightforward for new users to setup. Ubuntu has a ton of users who are 'sticky' on old LTS releases.

This enables the VLC developer to have one package that targets millions of users across lots of releases of Ubuntu - and other distros too.

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by amenod on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:58PM (#17055718)

Thanks!

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