A contributor is not allowed to use Fedora legally?

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh at farsiweb.info
Tue Sep 21 18:10:04 UTC 2004


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":

http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/x86_64/os/eula.txt

But the problem is that I live there, and have been living there while
working on all those pieces of software

Is Fedora allowed to do that, even when I have copylefted parts of the
software under GPL and LGPL? Won't that be adding more restrictions, and
against the explicit text in the licenses that says "You may not impose
any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
granted herein"? Also, isn't the same EULA claim that the whole
collective work is under GPL? If yes, how can it add those restrictions?

I would appreciate any kind of comment or recommendations, on-list or
off-list. This has somehow created a mental problem for me...

Roozbeh Pournader






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