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Les licences de Fedora et openSUSE sont elles légales et compatibles avec la GPL2?

C'est une question qui me taraude depuis un bon moment, puisque ces deux distributions utilisent principalement la licence MIT et openSUSE une licence GPL2; la licence MIT étant des plus permissives alors que la GPL2 oblige certains droits.

Pour Fedora c'est une licence MIT qui est utilisé pour le projet, je pensais avoir vu avant une licence GPL2 mais j'ai dû rêver, je vous envois sur cette page pour la lire dans son intégralité:

🔗 License

The Fedora operating system is a compilation of software packages, each under its own license. The compilation itself is released under the MIT license. However, this compilation license does not supersede the licenses of code and content contained in the Fedora operating system, which conform to the legal guidelines described at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing.

🔗 MIT license text

Copyright 2018 Fedora Project Authors.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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🔗 Source Availability

A complete machine-readable copy of the source code corresponding to portions of the accompanying Fedora release is available upon request. This offer is valid to anyone in receipt of this information and shall expire three years following the date of the final distribution of this release by Red Hat, Inc.

To obtain such source code, send a check or money order in the amount of US $10.00 to:

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Please write "source for Fedora $VERSION" (replacing $VERSION for the version of Fedora you want the source for) in the memo line of your payment.

You may also access a copy of this source code at: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/

🔗 Export Regulations

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Enfin de compte non, je n'ai pas rêvé mais ça date de Fedora 21:

LICENSE AGREEMENT
FEDORA(TM) 21

This agreement governs the download, installation or use of the Software
(as defined below) and any updates to the Software, regardless of the
delivery mechanism. The Software is a collective work under U.S.
Copyright Law. Subject to the following terms, Red Hat grants to
the user ("User") a license to this collective work pursuant to the GNU
General Public License version 2. By downloading, installing or using
the Software, User agrees to the terms of this agreement.

Pour openSUSE, c'est par ici:

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Donc je ne parlerai pas de Fedora puisque celle-ci utilise une licence MIT par contre je me demande si le openSUSE est dans les clous avec la sienne et la GPL2. De ce que je comprends, si je suis habitant d'un pays considéré comme ennemie par les USA ou si j'ai envie de cloner mon petit chat avec cette distribution, je n'ai pas le droit d'utiliser la dite distribution:

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Or c'est une contradiction avec la GPL qui oblige de:

Je ne suis pas expert en la matière ni de quoique ce ce soit du reste, mais vous en dites quoi?

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