A contributor is not allowed to use Fedora legally?

Pasha e97665728 at 013.net
Tue Sep 21 19:22:36 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:06, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, 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":
> 
> Does Iran recognize US copyright law?  If not I think you can probably
> do whatever you want with Fedora and still be on the right side of the
> only law that presently applies to you!

I don't think US copyright law has anything to do with the matter. EULA
is a sort of contract, so by agreeing to it, Roozbeh can't use fedora
legally.

> 
> -sam
> 





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