-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Searle wrote: > Around 09:07pm on Friday, August 10, 2007 (UK time), Geoffrey Leach scrawled: > >> IMHO, you've got it backwards. However you might read the GPL, it >> would be ill-advised to send a disto (or other restricted stuff) to >> Cuba. I very much doubt that the Feds would accept a reading of the GPL >> to let you off the hook. > > I assume your warning was only meant for those living under the > jusristriction of "the Feds". > > Would this restriction also mean a US citizen couldn't take a laptop > running Fedora to Cuba, or even more interestingly does that mean any of > your armed forces who may use Fedora, can't when they are serving in > Iraq? > > Steve > Steve, The US Armed forces is an exception. As such the armed forces fall under U.S. jurisdictional law and not foreign law. Especially in times of WAR; which we are currently in. Even when we occupy any foreign country, be it willingly or un-willingly. In some circumstances, the U.S. does have the right to waive those laws... ie: if a soldier is caught selling drugs in some countries he can be tried by the laws of that country. - -James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGvNg0kNLDmnu1kSkRAl2OAJ46OuuSFtpq6oQOYcYDka/v4/CS5gCdHIuY RgzbINS7CvHYSFTiT2J5O7c= =8Uyy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net
