On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 4:14 AM Richard Brown
On Wed, 2022-12-21 at 18:07 +0100, Axel Braun wrote:
* Questions...Why are we as a project tied to US export regulations? Servers are in Europe, no legal form. We accept that our sponsors may be, but not openSUSE as a project. Servers are also in the United States (e.g. provo for parts of the mirror/download infrastructure)
All SUSE trademarks, including openSUSE, are owned by SUSE LLC
Sources: https://www.suse.com/company/legal/terms-of-use https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License https://www.trademarkelite.com/europe/trademark/trademark-detail/004946729/O...
Considering this, I think the question as to why the Project is tied to US Export regulations is obvious - a trademark holding entity in the US and is going to be held to US regulations regarding things 'traded' under marks registered in the US.
I knew this and I thought I had said as much. I guess it didn't get transcribed into the notes. Sorry. :( -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!