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I wonder if they are complying with GPL. The "secret cyber-weapon" can't be so secret if they are also supplying source code, right?

Then again, I'd imagine it would be tough to put legal pressure on the DPRK when the combined diplomatic efforts of the West can't get them to budge....

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Well, from reading the article I'd say it's neither secret nor a weapon either way.

I doubt DPRK cares about the GPL at all. I imagine the app suite that's "similar to OpenOffice" is OpenOffice, perhaps slightly reworked. A full OpenOffice-like suite would take a lot of time and people to build from scratch, for no real benefit.

I think the same counts for the browser (which was firefox), the IM app ("pidgeon"? Pidgin, probably), the windows emulator (wine?) and so on and so forth.

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