Opensource

That's the most cut and dry example of copy-left license violation imaginable. This would even be a violation of a GPLv2 license. It's like they had zero idea what that license meant.

That sucks, because they're one of the only ones supporting Wayland, and I don't like using software from shady companies...

Isn't the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

Rustdesk has always been kinda shady

The copyright holder doesn't legally have to follow the terms of their own license. It sucks that it's not FOSS, but this isn't a violation unless there are contributers who didn't consent to a proprietary distribution.

the issue's gone now

I wanted to add this discussion post to the mix because I saw this when reading about the related article

it seems that Rustdesk server pro is a parent of the non-pro edition of it, so its not that it uses code from the opensourced project, but that the open sourced project uses the code from the closed source project. Meaning that the licensing restriction of doesn't apply to that project as it's actually the original source, and that they made the open sourced project based off that closed source.

Are there other discussions about this on the net? I glanced at r/rust and HN and didn't see anything. For such a blatant violation, I'd expect to see lots of drama and shaming going on.