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Originally posted by Chaz View PostDoes anyone understand what this law actually is? If it blocks US companies from receiving software from Sudan it sounds like an import restriction.
So, is it a poor choice of wording in the article, or am I missing something?Hi
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostDidn't know they had fully changed hands, though Germany probably their own restrictions in place too
They were owned by Novell at some point, but that doesn't make them a US company. Chrysler is owned by Fiat, and previously by Benz, but it doesn't mean that Chrysler is now an Italian company, and that it was a German company.Last edited by pingufunkybeat; 06 March 2014, 08:24 AM.
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Originally posted by dstaubsauger View PostAnd then they redifine "military equipment" to include Cryptography software and 3D printer drivers?
(That's why at some point, US companies weren't allowed to sell abroad software with DES encryption more than 56 bits).
PGP's Author did have problems because of that.
Would it change anything if fedora hosted their stuff somewhere outside the united states?
Originally posted by Chaz View PostDoes anyone understand what this law actually is? If it blocks US companies from receiving software from Sudan it sounds like an import restriction.
But this situation is about contribution. I.e.: about people editing software that they got. Software which is illegal for them to have. And Fedora ends up involved in the process.
Some trigger-happy lawyer could make some shit.
So instead of trying to prove that no illegal export has occured, it's easier to just make the whole thing invisible.
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Originally posted by DrYak View PostThat's how Debian does it: they have a "non-US" repository, which is out of reach of the US government and is used for this kind of things (cryptography, DRM circumvention and reverse engineered codecs)
non-US is obsolete
Since the sarge release, packages that were formerly in the non-US part of the archive have been moved into the regular archive. If you have any lines referring to "non-us" in your /etc/apt/sources.list, you should remove them.
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