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    Wanna launch a rocket? Can't use Fedora, then.

    Why would they care?

    http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora


    #2
    There was some discussiion here a year or so ago about using Ubuntu to control a .......... "gun" of some kind and there was some heated discussion about said use.

    woodsmoke

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      #3
      Is that even legal? I don't think you can impose extra terms on GPL licensed software (which not all of it, but certainly some of it is).

      Also related: proprietary license agreement applied to android SDK:

      http://code.paulk.fr/article0008/wha...he-android-sdk
      samhobbs.co.uk

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        #4
        Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post
        Why would they care?
        Indeed. It's open source and GPL. How in the world could they do anything about it even if they did care? It can be downloaded from anywhere, including source, and modified to do anything.

        IMO, it's just boiler plate to keep the US government off their backs.
        "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
        – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Feathers McGraw View Post
          Is that even legal? I don't think you can impose extra terms on GPL licensed software (which not all of it, but certainly some of it is).
          License agreements are contracts, and legislation takes precedence over contract clauses (for example, you could be convicted of murder even if you've made a contract with someone that you can kill people without consequences)

          Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
          Indeed. It's open source and GPL. How in the world could they do anything about it even if they did care? It can be downloaded from anywhere, including source, and modified to do anything.

          IMO, it's just boiler plate to keep the US government off their backs.
          Yup, they don't care...but being an US based company, Red Hat wants to wash their hands of breaking US export restrictions. Of course the restrictions are stupid, ineffective and totally unenforceable outside the States.
          Last edited by kubicle; Nov 28, 2014, 01:48 PM.

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            #6
            The International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR). The US State Department has the ability to pretty much shut down a business for exporting product in violation of the ITAR. Encryption technology features prominently on the list of prohibited items.

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