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Chinese contributions to the Linux kernel

EU–ChinaExisting collaboration evidence ? partly verified

Huawei ranked first by patches and second by changed lines for Linux 5.10 (Dec 2020) per kernel statistics reported by It's FOSS and The Register; some maintainers criticised low-value commits made to raise metrics. A conference write-up claims Chinese developers contributed over 20% of patches since 2021 (secondary, unverified). Use by European administrations is implicit, not documented here.

since
2020 (5.10)
scale
Huawei #1 by patches in 5.10; 20% claim unverified

Sources

  1. https://itsfoss.com/news/huawei-kernel-contribution/
  2. https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/26/linux_kernel_contributor_from_huawei/

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