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what is an American distro?
I mean does the kernel or DE have a nationality if they're Free Software? Anyone is supposed to be able to reuse them, no? Exactly like China has already building its own OS based on GNU-Linux
That's why, as a mere user myself, I consider the GNU-GPL license so essential (so much more than the code being 'Open Source') as GPL makes it so that no one can limit what anyone else wants to do with the code. And even if the USA one day stopped being our best friends, they would have no legal claim to prevent us (or China, or anyone else) from building on top of their code or to fork it. Freedom, is great.