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.
If yes: who is the copyright holder? AOSP is a collection of projects,
most of them being Apache licensed with owner "The Android Open Source
Project", but also includes many external projects from various authors
with various licenses. Of course there's also some Apache licensed "The
LineageOS Team" code and some Apache licensed "The Waydroid Project"
code. Ultimately the code is compiled by the Waydroid team.
Some included third party projects are already problematic for fedora,
for instance ffmpeg and chromium (which includes ffmpeg).
If no: Can we source build LineageOS in koji? I would need help
identifying the problematic packages in the huge list of packages that
make up android. Here's my specfile for it:
https://github.com/aleasto/waydroid-lineageos-devel/blob/main/waydroid-li...,
it has 786 tarballs. If you prefer an xml listing of the projects you
should look at default.xml and snippets/lineage.xml from
https://github.com/LineageOS/android/tree/lineage-17.1
Problems should only arise from external/* projects, since everything
else _should_ be Apache.
I've already removed chromium (in the form of a prebuilt webview apk in
aosp or lineageos) and ffmpeg from the specfile (maybe forever, maybe
until later given the progress at
src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ffmpeg).
Thank you!
Alessandro