On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:17:12 -0700, David Boles wrote: > > > > I am not with Fedora but just a Fedora user for a long time. Fedora has > > said this has to do with USA laws *and* company policy to only provide > > FOSS. Which I think is a really goo thig.None of the third party sites > > that I, myself, know of are in the USA. You can read that as you wish. > > Well, now I'm curious. What possible US law could apply? Aside from GPL > issues none come to mind. Do you have more specific info? See 2600 Magazine v USA (the decision over linking to DeCSS) It's a common confusion that the US has "free speech". The US has "free political speech" (mostly) and the two are quite different. Alan
