topic title: Fedora
Posts: 117
buttcoffee
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
#1
I was reading dedoimedo and he pointed out something interesting that i've never see before downloading a distro. It's something about exporting fedora. Here's what it says on fedora's download page.
Export Regulations

By clicking on and downloading Fedora, you agree to comply with the following terms and conditions:

By downloading Fedora software, you acknowledge that you understand all of the following: Fedora software and technical information may be subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (the “EAR”) and other U.S. and foreign laws and may not be exported, re-exported or transferred (a) to any country listed in Country Group E:1 in Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR (currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan & Syria); (b) to any prohibited destination or to any end user who has been prohibited from participating in U.S. export transactions by any federal agency of the U.S. government; or (c) for use in connection with the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, or sounding rockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems. You may not download Fedora software or technical information if you are located in one of these countries or otherwise subject to these restrictions. You may not provide Fedora software or technical information to individuals or entities located in one of these countries or otherwise subject to these restrictions. You are also responsible for compliance with foreign law requirements applicable to the import, export and use of Fedora software and technical information.

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Doesn't that kind of go against the whole free software stuff? I was unaware that one from a certain country couldn't download something if their government is hated by the US gpovernment. Maybe someone could explain, as this is the first time I've ever seen it

Anyways, who would use fedora OS to develop WMD's? Fedora isway too broke and nstable to do any type of meaningful work, imo.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
When I first started using Linux. I tried Open-Suse 9 and Mandriva 10 (I think, it,s been awhile)

RPM hell was what I ended up with in Mandriva using their urmpi repositories back then which cured me of rpm distros since then. I have not looked back since. I did not know about what you posted either buttcoffee. Times are getting more paranoid I guess.
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#3
That's USA law. I live in Brazil and don't need to comply with that, i.e., I can download Fedora and send it to whatever country I like.
* actually, since that's just a 'human', arbitrary, law, it's liable to questionings even in USA.
Posts: 117
buttcoffee
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
#4
i'm wondering how it's even enforceable. I've never seen any of the other distros mention those kinds of terms.

One thing about the distros that use rpm is it never became clear to me if one could use rpm's for fedora on something like opensuse or mandriva. I guess i'll never know because I don't plan on using any of them anytime soon.