A contributor is not allowed to use Fedora legally?

[Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors]

Sam Tregar wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors wrote:
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>>>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.
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>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!
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>-sam
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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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