Hi, just wanted to jump in and clarify on this point from the OBS Project side of things. While the issues that lead to us invoking our trademark were resolved, I wouldn’t consider us perfectly happy.
- The OBS Studio Fedora Flatpak still uses an identical app-id to our official package, which has the potential for causing confusion. As far as I understand it, however, this is a “genie out of the bottle” situation, but highlights the lack of care to upstream. It’s unclear if this point has ever come up in internal discussions at Fedora, but I’ll raise it again now as a consideration for future packages.
- As far as we know, the behavior and attitude that seems to be chronic around Fedora’s own methods of packaging (i.e. we know better than you, and we aren’t going to listen to anything you say, and insult you if you disagree) has made no progress, seen no disciplinary action, and as far as we are aware, members of the project (or representatives) are not holding themselves or community members accountable for such things.
It’s disappointing to see this conversation once again devolve in to “well open source says we can do this, why are you so against open source?” instead of having a real conversation about the process and people that these decisions are affecting. It’s a disingenuous argument, that feels pretty gross to constantly read as a fallback to any real criticisms the Fedora ecosystem receives, and serves only to dehumanize the projects involved and the efforts they spend.
While we are currently fine with the OBS Studio version being packaged with Fedora Flatpaks as the critical broken issues are fixed, calling us perfectly happy with how things turned out isn’t exactly accurate.