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:loudspeaker:  *We've released the <https://hydraulic.dev/blog/15-may-2023-updates.html|Conveyor updates for May>.*  <https://hydraulic.dev/|Conveyor> makes it easy to distribute Kotlin apps to the desktop. It handles packaging, code signing, creating self-updating packages including on Windows, uploading to servers or GitHub Releases, and can do that from your laptop or CI machine of choice. It has built-in integration for Compose and JavaFX apps, and can even be used to distribute servers (with systemd integration, debian packaging and apt repositories), and CLI tools (but ask us about that first if you want to do it, as that feature is in beta).

In this release we've added support for uploading to the Microsoft Store. The MS Store is useful because it lets you be treated as a trusted/signed app but without code signing certificates. It costs only $19 for an individual (one payment lasts forever), or $99 for a company, which is much cheaper than buying from a CA. This brings distribution of open source apps well within reach of even modest budgets, and Conveyor is free for open source.

Your terms still state: "We give out free licenses to open source projects automatically, but we don’t promise to always do this". So it is only free for open source projects at the moment... When I tried to integrate it in my free and open source project a few months ago, I noticed those terms and did not want to tie myself to a product that might become a paid product in the future.

We should probably just change that. It's legal boilerplate that's just meant to avoid creating any appearance of contractual obligation, e.g. if one day the company gets bought or goes out of business. There aren't actually any plans to stop doing so.

Note though that there's no lockin. You can always continue the update stream by using the platform-specific tools and frameworks.

<@UK9R34CTU> I took that line out of the summary, as it wasn't actually summarizing anything in the EULA anyway and it was just confusing. There's not much point in trying to charge open source projects.