[CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild

Alain Reguera Delgado alain.reguera at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 18:06:32 UTC 2006


On 8/21/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
>
> > On 8/20/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, 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
> > >
> > > Talk to a lawyer. But if the user (you) lives in one of the countries
> > > listed in the EXPORT CONTROL section of the EULA, I don't see why you
> > > would even care about the EULA. :)
> >
> > maybe because never heard about this, and this is the first time I do,
> > and want to know what exactly is, and how much I am legally affected.
>
> My point is that imagine you are a user from Cuba and you have downloaded
> Fedora. Why would *you* care about the EXPORT CONTROL section ? What is
> the U.S. going to do, embargo the country ? invade it ? :)
>
> I personally find it very strange they put this in the EULA, because
> putting the responsibility onto the user is very strange if you don't
> trust that user in the first place.

this is a big contradiction, at least for me.

> But then again, the file is there because of U.S. regulations, not Cuban
> regulations. And hell, maybe they put it there to scare a few Cubans on

then you mean nothing legal here, just a way of scare people (just for fun?)

> the way. It worked for you, right ? ;)

scared ? no. just confused.

> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

-- 
my Regards to you and your Time
Al.



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