RemixOS is big on GPL violations

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6 points·ekianjo··4 comments

Anyone who takes one look at the RemixOS license agreement should run the other way. You agree to censor yourself and all of the content you create or interact with within RemixOS in accordance with the censorship policies of the Chinese government. And you agree to give up all rights to user-created content used with Jide services, which is something within RemixOS (though I am unsure if you have to use it).

Do you really need to ship the sourcecode with the product? I thought the GPL says you have to provide the source code if your customer wants it. But you need to always include a copy of the GPL i think.

Is Remix OS and the Android-x86 project somehow related? On android-x86.org they advertise the latest release of Remix OS in a friendly tone, but titled "Console OS" a scam which steals from Android-x86. So I guess Remix OS is somehow tolerated?

Quote from the article "In webpage “About” on the official website, I also can’t find information about Android-x86 fork."

They mention Android-x86 in the first paragraph on http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc

I don't know about the Unetbootin part, if that was done directly, but it seems to me there is no problem with the Android-x86 part?

> I thought the GPL says you have to provide the source code if your customer wants it.

There is nothing about what the customer wants. You have to either publish the source or provide a link, like a URL, to it.

No, you don't have to publish the source code in public. You have to submit source code with your product to the customer, or a hint that the customer can request the source code if he wants to. This can be public, but it doesn't have to be public.

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