Export restrictions legalese in Fedora scare would-be local mirror

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:41:55AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Just got a reply from a local would-be mirror telling me they
> discarded Fedora from the local Linux mirror lists because of the
> "export restrictions"
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export
> http://fedoraunity.org/export-restrictions
> 
> However, they carry Debian and CentOS, implying that the same
> restrictions do not apply to those projects.
> 
> I think that is a silly excuse and that they´re full of s... as I
> don´t see any fundamental differences between Fedora and CentOS...
> 
> Specially after reading
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/066853.html
> 
> Thoughts? Comments?
> 
> FC
> PS: they´re a goverment-owned telecomms firm
> http://mirrors.dcarsat.com.ar/ so they might be more paranoid to
> legalese and fear of Uncle Sam getting after them (or us as a country)
> if they don´t police access restrictions to the mirror site as per the
> wishes of the us govt.

Questions about the export restrictions should probably be posted to
the legal list instead:

legal at lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal

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