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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by Junk_Collector on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:08AM (#20039657)
Why would a Chinese Linux derivative need be open source? It's not like you're going to go into China and force the government to comply with your license.
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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by bigato on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:21AM (#20040492)
It would be legally required to be opensource, whereas with BSD it wouldn't. That's all I argued. Whether some country will try to enforce it via whatever means is another question altogether.
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