On 09/27/2013 12:52 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: We have an legal clause that says "Fedora software and technical information may be subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations" in relation to the EAR ( Let's not start beating the dead horse of distribution of fedoram forking Fedora etc just because I mention EAR) If I was going host my code in the US somewhere and make that code public under shareable licence does an EAR act automatically apply to that code? Because at some point the upstream code we built the distribution upon, is considered "Fedora software" under US laws and what I'm trying to understand and establish at which point does that happen in our processes. Is it as soon as we download/clone the upstream code? Is it when we start distributing those bit ( which makes as soon as we build an rpm ) ? Is it when we apply patch to the upstream code here downstream here with us ( which modifies the upstream code ) and then start distributing it? Is this clause only applicable to the code we write ourselves downstream here with us, as in something that apply's strictly to Fedora which for example might be hosted under fedorahosted? Does that clause apply to code hosted under fedorahosted even if it's being used outside Fedora? JBG

On 09/27/2013 02:07 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: The only reason I threw this in there was to be able to determine if EAR applies to all codes hosted and distributed in the US as in code outside the "Fedora trademark" and Red Hat, which would then be applicable not only to fedorahosted ( which might have been a gray area ) but for example github inc (which if I'm not mistaken is US based company as well. ) But you should be able to provide me with answer to the other questions. JBG