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What interests me is does they respect licenses of the open source stuff they use?
by mhaehnel 10y ago
What interests me is does they respect licenses of the open source stuff they use?
- reubensutton 10y agoNo, it's all closed source. The binaries aren't publicly distributed either, they seem to be the result of leaks.
- chris_wot 10y agoMakes me wonder what they thought they were going achieve. I'm assuming it's based on a Linux distribution? I guess when your entire nation is a state controlled echo chamber it's easy to just think that criticism of your code is just jealousy of your achievements.
- anonbanker 10y agoGPL'ed code is probably legal in this case, because they don't distribute publicly. It would be a decently easy case to make in an international IP court that distribution within North Korea is not a public release. However, if a North Korean citizen demanded the source code for Red Star, they may be obligated to provide it, lest they are in violation of the GPL.
- anubisresources 10y agoThe DPRK does not respect the GPL, unsurprisingly.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoThough they are a party to the Berne Convention, so they ought to.