Export restrictions legalese in Fedora scare would-be local mirror

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 22:17:31 UTC 2012


On 23 July 2012 15:28, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> My half-italian genes kicked in and I wrote a somewhat unpolite email
> telling "oh rly?" ;) and pointing at export restrictions legalese in
> the apache.org site too (that they mirror), along with the CentOS
> discussion.
>
> Result: he apologized and told me there would be a local mirror during
> the week. :)
> I also suggested them they could mirror it from Chilean or Brazilian
> existing mirrors so there would be no connection to US based
> servers...
>
> Sometimes carrying a hatchet works. ;))

Nice work!

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imalone
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