Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:11AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: >>Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important >>university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized >>for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. > >>In their talk they said they didn't choose Debian because of legal >>restrictions due to the USA embargo. > >>The obvious question is: is it illegal to use Debian in Cuba? > >>Could you please clarify me? > > It is my understanding that it is illegal under US law to knowingly export > software (free software or otherwise) from the US to Cuba, or to Cuban > nationals. > > It is my understanding that this applies to Gentoo just as much as it > applies to Debian. To the best of my knowledge (IANAL), there is no issue with someone in Cuba or another embargoed country downloading Debian from ftp.xx.debian.org, for values of xx != us or probably a few others. Key issue here: it is *not* illegal to use Debian in Cuba[1]; it is only illegal for someone in the US to export it to Cuba or provide it to someone expected to do so. [1] (barring some strange regulation of Cuba; for example, some countries restrict encryption) - Josh Triplett
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