Some Fedora Flatpaks re-use Flathub app's manifests without crediting the authors

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  1. I’ve no power of whethe that PR gets submitted, but it seems a reasonable adjustment to me without a lot of risk and if CentOS is already doing it meh.

  2. I take issue with your characterization that this is a mistake.
    I made efforts to notify impacted downstream who uses flathub runtimes preinstalled about the license compliance issues I found as part of my due diligence.

I have deep concerns about a linux distributor culture that just shrugged of the GPL license compliance concerns and were willing to wait 3 months for your critical upstream to fix their compliance issues. I think that’s a very big mistake. A mistake Fedora can’t afford to make.. because its legal liability and not user sentiment.

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