[WBEL-devel] export controls....

[Rick Moran]

Quoting donavan nelson <donavan@whiteboxlinux.net>:
> I've been poking around various places:  This is from
> https://rhn.redhat.com/legal/terms.pxt section 7.  I've found similar
> documents on the RH website.  Full quote below.

> This would certainly include our new friend from Cuba then wouldn't it?

Definetly, but we are trying to put the onus on the 
customer/consumer/downloader.  This is the strategy that redhat has taken
and I think that it is a reasonable one.  Never been tested in court 
tho...

> Are we covered by including the same in whitebox?  Are we responsible if
> someone downloads from a US mirror to Cuba?

I would assert that we are covered to the same degree that Red Hat 
is covered.  

I think it would be easy to convey to a judge that there is no 
reasonable way to restrict this content on the internet without
the ability to absolutely determine the origin of the download request.
Thus the only avenues available are:

1. stop distributing the software
2. place the responsibility on the downloader to affirm that by 
   downloading that they are not causing us to break the law.

Am I wrong?
Rick