On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 15:04 -0400, Mark Webbink wrote: > Roozbeh is certainly welcome to his opinions, but having been through > this discussion many times before, this is a non-issue. Fedora is > U.S.-based, and Red Hat, as its distributors, has an obligation to > abide by U.S. law regardless of what the GPL may say. That law > forbids the export of Fedora to certain countries and individuals. > Anyone who knowingly distributes or permits the distribution of Fedora > in violation of U.S. export control laws is subject to substantial > fines and criminal conviction. This is not dissimilar to the laws in > other countries that regulate the import and export of goods, > including computer software, and Fedora is obligated to respect all of > those. The fact that these laws exist does not override the intent of > the licensor, i.e., that Fedora is free software, nor does it in my > legal opinion violate the GPL (understanding that others, including > the FSF, may disagree with me on this point). However, the GPL does > not relieve anyone from complying with the national laws in those > countries within which they reside. Has anyone told Roozbeh just this? Any problem with my forwarding this mail to him? -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
