I was wondering if I can do anything about not being able to use Fedora Core legally. To use software that is partly my own (I am a copyright co-holder for Mozilla, FriBidi, GNOME translations (sometimes under the name "FarsiWeb", Pango, etc), I need to "warrant that I am not located in Iran":
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/x86_64/os/eula.txt
But the problem is that I live there, and have been living there while working on all those pieces of software
Is Fedora allowed to do that, even when I have copylefted parts of the software under GPL and LGPL? Won't that be adding more restrictions, and against the explicit text in the licenses that says "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein"? Also, isn't the same EULA claim that the whole collective work is under GPL? If yes, how can it add those restrictions?
I don't think that it is the Fedora project that add those restrictions, but rather the US government. Duke Univ. probably feels they have to "cover their butts" by making you jump through that hoop.
Isn't there a non-USA mirror you could download from?
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
