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Originally Posted by HarryT
How do you reach that conclusion? China is a signatory to the Berne Copyright Convention, and the GPL can be enforced via the Berne Convention. What makes you believe that it doesn't apply in China?
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I am definitely not an expert. Berne however seems to be less related to licensing. It is more about moral authorship, ownership, authenticity. You could sue someone based on Berne if that person claims the authorship to the work you did. Onyx does not claim anything. They simply reuse a work covered by GPL and not claiming anything.
Imho this is very difficult area. Even big fish companies have problems to enforce their licensing in China. Some decided it's better to sell their business to China than fighting never ending license violations. Generalizing it's a culture thing to great extent. The sharing spirit of OSS where there are givers and consumers does not work that well in that part of the world. There it is more an approach of "use whatever is there and make business of it without sharing". I don't want to discourage anyone... you know... just saying
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I found quite a nice example of what is happening there:
http://www.chinaiplawyer.com/china-c...nse-agreement/ . The lawyer comment at the bottom seems to be a nice summary of whole OSS in China topic.