Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 11:10 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit : > andre999 skrev 27.7.2011 05:27: > > David W. Hodgins a écrit : > >> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:11:44 -0400, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:16:07 vous avez écrit : > >>>> Le Tuesday 26 July 2011 23:13:49 Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > >>>>> Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 20:02:34, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz a écrit : > >>>>>> Hello all, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> well, i did ask this once in mandriva, now in mageia. I've > >>>>>> sucessfully > >>>>>> packed in RPM sawmill (www.sawmill.net) software. > >> > >>>> Yes, i will arrange this and communicate with counsill if i got a yes > >> > >>> I got a YES > >> > >> They understand the mirrors currently have no way of blocking residents of > >> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea or any other country to which the > >> United > >> States embargoes goods, or (ii) to the Bosnian Serbs from downloading and > >> installing the package? > > > > That's a provision of the U.S. govt, (followed by the canadian and many > > other > > govts), which means that mirrors can't be located in such countries. But > > there > > is nothing to stop residents of those countries from downloading the > > software, > > except censorship by various govts. (Which does happen.) > > A mirror is not initiating the transfer, and likely has no idea of the real > > source of the download request. > > > Which means that _if_ we provide it, it has to go into tainted repo, as > it's restricted by it's license.
The license just partially reflect the existing export restriction of the State Departement of the USAs. As this apply to every exportation ( at least, RH take it seriously, as well as almost every commercial developers that hired a lawyer to redact their EULA ), and that mean for example java-1.6.0-sun rpm, should we move it to tainted, along with firefox ( mozilla foundation is US based ), chromium ( google is US based ), and various RH softwares ( such as system-config-printer ), or Novell one ( such as mono ) ? ( please note that the GPL has a dedicated section for that, see the point 8 of the license, so they are not non-free due to that ) -- Michael Scherer
