This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Feb 15, 2017 19:26 UTC (Wed) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457)
In reply to: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state by karkhaz
Parent article: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

US export law, I believe, which has clauses specifically relating to the export of things that are involved in the 'manufacture' of nuclear (etc. etc.) weapons.

I don't know the ins and outs and whether the clauses are actually necessary and make any sense, but that's ultimately where it's coming from, AIUI. For more details, ask a lawyer. I am not one, and this is not legal advice.

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This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Feb 18, 2017 11:54 UTC (Sat) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

Maybe it's meant to avoid incidents like this: https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-u-s-dispute-nuke-soft...

> Earlier this month, Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information, a nonprofit military research organization based in Washington, D.C., wrote that Russian nuclear scientists last year found a bug in Microsoft's SQL Server database software that threatened the security not only of Russian nuclear weapons materials, but also of U.S. nuclear materials.