On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 14:54 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 08:33 -0400, 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....
That has nothing to do with Red Hat, but US export regulations. Exporting Fedora/RHEL (or any other US-located Linux distribution that integrates strong encryption) violates US export laws. Many countries have comparable regulations. Refer to the following survey for more information:
http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
for a minute, feel like one of "we" and maybe you have the answer that is needed. (please, I appreciate your comment, don't confuse mine)
I think that many opensource/free software developers would prefer to have no export restrictions on cryptography. But we are all bound by these laws, so there is not much that can be done about this issue (besides convincing people that cryptography actually helps protecting citizens).
I wish that the law did not exist either ... however it does. As Daniel said, it is not a RedHat thing at all. It is a government thing. The law is the law, and one must comply.
As Karanbir said, CentOS is a UK entity ... therefore must comply with UK export restrictions. Look at Daniel's link to see what those are.