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.

You could, and unless you’re trying to profit off it the original devs likely won’t care.

And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

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]. @[email protected]

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.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.