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You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games. Don't tell me it's not done because there are security concerns, you have no way to tell if cracked games contain secret malware in them yet people still distribute and download those.
And also pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason...
You could, and unless you're trying to profit off it the original devs likely won't care.
They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.
I don't care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.
~~For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it's completely free to download by the original developer [1].~~ @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com
~~They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don't like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don't tell you about it.~~
[1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry
~~Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link:
winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberryinstalls Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.~~I got a "no package found matching input criteria" using this method.
It also appears to only offer version 1.0.15 whereas the newest version is 1.2.10
If I'm not mistaken, 1.0.15 was the last windows / Mac version released before the dev paywalled them.