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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are existing mirrors for Fedora and Ubuntu packages in China, which are used because mirrors in other countries are often blocked. I’m sure there are no legality issues—the issue in the case of flatpak and china in particular is that China blocks Fastly because Fastly does not host any POPs in China. This is why Cloudflare, for example, has their own network in China that international users can pay to use. There’s no legal issues here, just logistical. Besides, as previously shown, people do (with great difficulty) managed to bring up their own flatpak mirror without any consequences for a few years now.

Besides, there shouldn’t be legality issues for businesses wanting to host their own mirrors for compliance issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just think Flathub shouldn't get involved with Chinese attacks on human rights. The Chinese version of things lack proper encryption and are heavily censored. You can't use things like normal Wikipedia or Ticktok.

China isolates there own people. You can't blame Flathub for attacks on freedom. As for mirrors your welcome to create your own repo based on Flathub. However, it is never going to be officially enforced. Flathub is very careful with user safety.