There are a number of sticky issues with this post.
1) It is illegal for RH to deliver by any means any software to Iran.
2) Using most legal systems, a license is a contract, so you are bound by the terms
of the license if you use the product.
3) It is illegal for Intel to supply the processor for your computer to Iran.
All computer software and hardware manufacturers in the USA are bound by
the export regulations of the ATF {Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ...}. I don't
know why, the ATF regulates software, but they do.
I would suggest you use some European distribution.
Besides the CIA has likely already read these posts, and are infiltrating your
community as we speak, so you may want to dig a hole and bury your computer,
software and all other stuff you don't want them to find. Since I have the name
of your country in my post, they are likely investigating me now as well, so I'm
off to buy a shovel :-)
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
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 would appreciate any kind of comment or recommendations, on-list or off-list. This has somehow created a mental problem for me...
Roozbeh Pournader
-- Guy
