What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

Posted Aug 22, 2008 14:29 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too by smoogen
Parent article: What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

I guess Fedora is not a publicly traded company, so information about the Fedora server compromise should not be under any legal clamps of this type...

What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

Posted Aug 22, 2008 14:36 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (5 responses)

Fedora is funded (systems, hardware, bandwidth, etc) by Red Hat, and is considered under
United States and most International law to be a part and parcle of Red Hat, Inc.

Yes, AFAIK Fedora is legally under Redhat Inc.

Posted Aug 23, 2008 11:59 UTC (Sat) by darwish07 (guest, #49520) [Link] (4 responses)

Yes. This is also the reason of my inability to use Fedora.

Being in the middle east, it's said in the Installation license agreement that you can not use Fedora if you're in one of the US prohibited countries (Syria and others).

This implies that Fedora is considered part of Redhat Inc. under the US law.

I have not used Fedora since about 3 years, but I remember very well this kind of restriction of fedora usage those days and I don't know if they still exist or not.

Yes, AFAIK Fedora is legally under Redhat Inc.

Posted Aug 23, 2008 15:03 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (3 responses)

It would not matter if Fedora was a part of Red Hat or not.. Its more whether Fedora is based inside of the United States or not. Any organization inside of the United States is bound by the same laws (whether or not they follow them.)

State of projects controlled by US-based organizations

Posted Aug 23, 2008 15:41 UTC (Sat) by darwish07 (guest, #49520) [Link] (2 responses)

You seem right again ;-). I've checked the license agreement of Firefox-3 (the license window that appears after the first use) and it has the same set of restrictions. It's the first time I notice such restriction.

One has to wonder if this applies to the source code or to the pre-compiled binaries only.

State of projects controlled by US-based organizations

Posted Aug 23, 2008 15:45 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (1 responses)

The laws cover both source code in electronic format and binaries. If you can find it, read up on the history of the original internation PGP implementations. Basically, since paper-printed are not covered under this law as they are considered 'freedom of the press'... the source code was published and brought to various countries where it was hand typed back in.

State of projects controlled by US-based organizations

Posted Aug 23, 2008 22:00 UTC (Sat) by darwish07 (guest, #49520) [Link]

Very nice information indeed. Thank you!