Your submission for your app Krita needs some attention.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Data:

Name: Krita
App ID: 9N6X57ZGRW96
Publisher Name: Krita
Test ID: cac10fa4-1726-47f5-830e-9a95dc6ebc99
Review Completed: 06/22/2018 14:41

Content:

Okay, this is the second mail like this I've gotten from. I have replied to 
reportapp at microsoft.com before but not received a proper reply, only a second 
mail like this.

"App Policies: 10.8.5 Software Distribution

Notes To Developer

The app metadata includes links that promote acquiring software outside of the 
Microsoft Store.

https://download.kde.org/stable/krita
"

This is not relevant. Your policy says:

"10.8 Financial Transactions

If your app includes in-app purchase, subscriptions, virtual currency, billing 
functionality or captures financial information, the following requirements 
apply:

...

10.8.5

Your app may promote or distribute software only through the Microsoft Store.
"

The Krita application includes none of that, whatsoever. No in-app purchases, 
no subscriptions, no virtual currency, no billing functionality, no capture of 
any financial information whatsoever exist in the Krita application.

Therefore, your report's assessment:

"Please take the following action

We reviewed your submission and identified some changes that are needed before 
we can publish or update the app. Please make these changes and resubmit your 
app. For more information, contact reportapp at microsoft.com Please include your 
app ID so we can act quickly.

App Policies: 10.8.5 Software Distribution

Notes To Developer

The app metadata includes links that promote acquiring software outside of the 
Microsoft Store.

https://download.kde.org/stable/krita

Tested Devices: Windows 10 Desktop
"

is wrong. Your policy 10.8.5 does not in any way prohibit links that promote 
acquiring software outside the Microsoft Store: it says, explicitly that _if_ 
an application 

"includes in-app purchase, subscriptions, virtual currency, billing 
functionality or captures financial information, the following requirements 
apply:"

...

"Your app may promote or distribute software only through the Microsoft 
Store."

Since Krita does not include anything like that, the 10.8.5 requirement 
reading "Your app may promote or distribute software only through the 
Microsoft Store." does not apply.

In my previous mail to "reportapp at microsoft.com" I have indicated my 
willingness to discuss this issue at the appropriate level; not having 
received an answer, I am making this mail public through a cc to the project 
mailing list.

To re-iterate:

Since your rule 10.8 which says "if your app (not the listing on the store, 
not anything else, but the app) "includes in-app purchase, subscriptions, 
virtual currency, billing functionality or captures financial information, the 
following requirements apply" is not relevant, since the app does not do any 
of that, your policy 10.8.5 which says "Your app may promote or distribute 
software only through the Microsoft Store" is not violated by having a link to 
the download site in the app listing -- note your language "not the listing on 
the store".

Therefore, it is perfectly fine to mention on the store that people can 
download Krita for free from krita.org, for any OS whatsoever and for free.

Please do escalate this to the right level before I have to go even more 
public than the project mailing list: I want a speedy resolution that is in 
accordance with the policies set out in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/
legal/windows/agreements/store-policies#108-financial-transactions and in the 
best interests of both Microsoft, the Krita project and its users.

Yours,

Boudewijn Rempt


On vrijdag 22 juni 2018 16:46:23 CEST you wrote:
> Your submission for your app Krita needs some attention.
> 
> 
> Upon review of your submission, we found some issues with your app Krita.
> Please address the comprehensive list of failures in the report and
> resubmit the updated submission. This report may be found here:
> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/apps/9N6X57ZGRW96
 
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> 
> 
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