On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:10, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
I was wondering if I can do anything about not being able to use Fedora Core legally. To use software that is partly my own (I am a copyright co-holder for Mozilla, FriBidi, GNOME translations (sometimes under the name "FarsiWeb", Pango, etc), I need to "warrant that I am not located in Iran":
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/x86_64/os/eula....
But the problem is that I live there, and have been living there while working on all those pieces of software
Is Fedora allowed to do that, even when I have copylefted parts of the software under GPL and LGPL? Won't that be adding more restrictions, and against the explicit text in the licenses that says "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein"? Also, isn't the same EULA claim that the whole collective work is under GPL? If yes, how can it add those restrictions?
IANAL, but I don't think GPL is applicalble to your case. GPL requires no additional restrictions on distributed software, but since RedHat does not "distribute" software to you GPL this requirement does not apply.
I would appreciate any kind of comment or recommendations, on-list or off-list. This has somehow created a mental problem for me...
This situation is quite absurd, but RedHat has to play by the rules - even if this requires to write completely unenforceable EULA. The only recommendation I could give is to use any European distro.
Roozbeh Pournader
Pavel.