On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 12:22:55AM +0100, Alessandro Astone wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on packaging Waydroid for fedora. This is a wrapper around lxc > that natively runs a patched LineageOS android image. While the lxc wrapper > itself is GPL3, the big elephant in the room is the LineageOS image. > > On the first use the user is supposed to run `waydroid init` which downloads > the LineageOS image precompiled by the Waydroid team, from their servers. It > also supports OTA updates from them. The user could instead provide its own > images (to a specified location in /usr) and waydroid will skip the download > and use those. > > My first question is: Would waydroid be allowed to download it's own > precompiled images? Does it fall in the 'firmware for emulators' category, > for which the policy is as follows? > > > * Emulators must not point to any third-party sites which provide > > firmware or ROM files that are distributed without the clear and > > explicit permission of their copyright holders. > > I think this case would be acceptable, but IANAL. Trying to build a complete android image in koji is interesting, but... not worth the efforts. Perhaps if downloading their image on running it isn't acceptable, we could just make it error out until the user downloaded whatever android compatible image they wished/wanted to? kevin
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