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Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?

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[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if that's the case then that's explains it

but its a bit misleading to call it FOSS tbh

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago

JDownloader is a free, open source [...]

They might mean free as in beer, instead of freedom. It's the plugins that aren't open source, altough they are required to be useful.