On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 14:54 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 08:33 -0400, Alain Reguera wrote: > > maybe you are not in the list I refer as "we". would like to know how > > you'll feel if you see your country in the line 67-68 of this file: > > http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/rawhide-snapshots/2006-05-27-0237/eula.txt > > That has nothing to do with Red Hat, but US export regulations. > Exporting Fedora/RHEL (or any other US-located Linux distribution that > integrates strong encryption) violates US export laws. Many countries > have comparable regulations. Refer to the following survey for more > information: > > http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ > > > for a minute, feel like one of "we" and maybe you have the answer that > > is needed. (please, I appreciate your comment, don't confuse mine) > > I think that many opensource/free software developers would prefer to > have no export restrictions on cryptography. But we are all bound by > these laws, so there is not much that can be done about this issue > (besides convincing people that cryptography actually helps protecting > citizens). > I wish that the law did not exist either ... however it does. As Daniel said, it is not a RedHat thing at all. It is a government thing. The law is the law, and one must comply. As Karanbir said, CentOS is a UK entity ... therefore must comply with UK export restrictions. Look at Daniel's link to see what those are.
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