Red Flag Linux Distributor Joins OSDL

segphault writes "Ars Technica reports that Red Flag Linux has joined the OSDL." From the article: "Founded in 2000 through the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Red Flag's Linux software line includes desktop, server, and embedded Linux distributions. Red Flag's products are extremely popular in China, where their desktop Linux distribution is favored by many developers. Red Flag frequently collaborates with other Linux distributors in the region, like Korea's Haansoft and Japan's Miracle Linux."

Comments

typo?

[eneville]

Someone misspelt 'flag'!

Re:Red-Flag Distro.. It's just that "Red Flag"

[layer3switch]

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. ...

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium , provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. ...

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code , even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.

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The question is, did you read the GPL? What Red Flag is doing is very clear. Bend the rule as much as you can get away with it.