Sam Tregar wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors wrote:
>>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!
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>Red Hat is a US based company though. Knowingly sending software to a nation
>under a trade sanction is illegal, not for our Iranian colleague but for Red
>Hat. Just like trying to find an American car in Cuba made after 1959.
>
>
That may be true, but it has nothing to do with the legality of using
the software in Iran. Obviously that issue is covered by Iranian law,
not US law!
-sam
My point is - it's not illegal for OP to *use* the software. It's
illegal for Red Hat to distribute it to nations which the USA has a
trade embargo against. How can OP *use* the software if it's illegal
under USA law for it to be distributed to him, since it is technically
an work of USA origins? There's the billion Zloty question.
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