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I know I am pointlessly late on this but…
You do not distribute the Flatpak runtime or Flatpak itself. You can depend on it but it is distributed separately. Flatpak may download these dependencies at the same time as your app bundle but it is not downloaded from you. And the libraries you are linking to (like Glibc) are LGPL or even more permissive.
If you put a GPL library into your application bundle, that could be a problem. But if your app is closed source, you are presumably not doing that.