you can. in that case compilation step is replaced with downloading a binary.
compare steam and workbench manifests. in the first case manifest instructs to download a binary and copy stuff into the right place, in second one - to use meson buildsystem, it does everything for you.
Hmm, interesting. But can’t you also upload proprietary programs onto FlatHub?
Admittedly, I’ve never researched much about Flatpak specifically…
Yes but then the bot won’t say that the code is open source.
The list above is information about the specific package. Eg if it did require hardware access, it would say so instead of saying it doesn’t.
you can. in that case compilation step is replaced with downloading a binary.
compare steam and workbench manifests. in the first case manifest instructs to download a binary and copy stuff into the right place, in second one - to use meson buildsystem, it does everything for you.
pretty much the same as, for example, rpm