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Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
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That wouldn’t work. Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks have different goals.
Fedora Flatpaks must meet legal requirement set by Fedora, so no proprietary or patented software.
Flathub also encourages upstream to maintain their packages. But upstream may not meet the security requirements set by Fedora. Fedora has much stricter packaging guidelines which don’t permit vendored dependencies.
That honestly doesn't sound like a bad mission, but it seems like there's a couple other requirements they should impose on their mission and then there wouldn't be any controversy.
They should require that their package works as well as the upstream, and, in the even that it doesn't, they need to be very blatant and open that this is a downstream package, and support for it will only be provided by Fedora Flatpaks, and that you may have better results with the official packages.
The primary issues in this case is that it doesn't work, and it's not been clear to users who to ask for help.