On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Paul Frields wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mostafa Daneshvar > > <mostafa.daneshvar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear Board; > > > We, as Iranian community, want your permission to use > > > "fedoraproject.ir".One of our members registered it without considering > > > related regulations mentioned in > > > "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/";. > > > within these few months this community attracted a lot of users,nearly > > > 510 registered. According to logs our website approximately has 5000 > > > pages view each day. Our forum has 5500 posts (up to now). > > > Considering our efforts within this time, we need your license to > > > continue our efforts. We need to grant us to use Fedora logo in our > > > website. > > > > > > We should be thankful for your immediate response > > > > Thank you for you email -- we're looking into this now, and will get > > back to you as soon as we can. > > > As you may know, US federal law currently places sweeping restrictions > on US citizens' and corporations' ability to transact with certain > people, organizations, and nations. The list of embargoed nations > includes Cuba, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, among others. > I just want to go on record saying that I think this is wrong and I don't think I'm alone. I don't disagree with us following our US laws, but I think those laws are quite broken. I'm going to (and I'd encourage other US citizens to) contact lawmakers and let them know what position we've been placed in. I don't suspect anything will come from it, but its the best option we have. Sorry Mostafa. -Mike _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
