Desurium client published under GPL v3

As promised , the developers of Desura’s Linux client released the source code of the client program under a free license. The project is called Desurium and is hosted on github. The official announcement of this event will probably take place on Monday, but now we can conclude that the developers chose the Chrome / Chromium model, that is, they will support two versions: one part is open and the other part with corporate trademarks is under a commercial license.

One way or another, Desurium is currently the only free game distribution platform. This is its advantage over Steam from Valve Corporation, although the Desura developers themselves do not talk about competition, but rather try to “complement” Steam.

Desura specializes in independent games. Now in the catalog there are 110 games for Linux, 33 of them are free.
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For comparison, Steam has a directory of 1504 games and 40 million active accounts. It hosts the largest publishers, including Activision, Rockstar Games, 2K Games, Sega.