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

Alain Reguera Delgado alain.reguera at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 14:48:08 UTC 2006


On 8/20/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> 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.txt
> >
> > 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/

Thanks Daniel for take the time in searching and posting this valuable link.

> >
> > > 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.

clean and exact suggestion here, thanks Johnny.

-- 
my Regards to you and your Time
Al.



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