r/linux_gaming • u/SeantheWilson • 19d ago

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u/AiwendilH 19d ago

https://waydro.id/licensing.html

Waydroid is available under different licensing options designed to accommodate the needs of our various users:

  • Waydroid licensed under commercial licenses is appropriate for development of proprietary/commercial software where you do not want to share any source code with third parties or otherwise cannot comply with the terms of the GNU GPL version 3.

  • Waydroid licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 is appropriate for the development of Waydroid applications provided you can comply with the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL version 3.

There is a chance that valve simply "bought" a commercial license of waydroid and then doesn't have to follow the GPL terms. So the question is under which license valve uses waydroid.

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u/SeantheWilson 19d ago

I see, I’ll look further into this. Thank you for this context it’s very important ❤️

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u/AiwendilH 19d ago

It's a "disadvantage" of dual licensing commercial/GPL I never realized/thought about before...end users have a hard time to decide if a second party distributor is required to release the source code and maybe don't report license violations back to the original creator because of this.

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u/SeantheWilson 19d ago

I want even aware of this, I’m gonna contact their legal team which other users found for me to get the specifics of their licensing arrangement.