Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?

Example :

You acknowledge that openSUSE Leap 15.3 is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (the “EAR”) and you agree to comply with the EAR. You will not export or re-export openSUSE Leap 15.3 directly or indirectly, to: (1) any countries that are subject to US export restrictions; (2) any end user who you know or have reason to know will utilize openSUSE Leap 15.3 in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, and sounding rockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems, except as authorized by the relevant government agency by regulation or specific license; or (3) any end user who has been prohibited from participating in the US export transactions by any federal agency of the US government. By downloading or using openSUSE Leap 15.3, you are agreeing to the foregoing and you are representing and warranting that You are not located in,under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. In addition, you are responsible for complying with any local laws in Your jurisdiction which may impact Your right to import, export or use openSUSE Leap 15.3. Please consult the Bureau of Industry and Security web page www.bis.doc.gov before exporting items subject to the EAR. It is your responsibility to obtain any necessary export approvals.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    Its a CYA for SUSE. Certain technologies aren’t permitted to be shared outside of USA unless you go through the ETAR and assign if it commerically restricted/unrestricted, etc. If you are in USA you are bound by this anyway, even without a EULA.

    They don’t know what you may install or transfer, even though it is opensource and you could download in another country.

    We get hung up with this at work. We may have a software issue and send to USA parent company for review, they then need to know if the data represents a certain class so they can direct where (country) the software review or fix can be sent for evaluation.

    There are obious things like military, but then there are commercial, transit infrastructure, aero, etc.

    But it can get stupid, like the parent company received a CAD file I sent in as a demomstration of a display bug. i made a cube 4x4x4. the agent wanted to know what ETAR class it was, I argued it isn’t because it is a cube I made as demo only, they would not review till i choose a class from a long list. None applied. But I had to pick one for them to proceed. So somewhere some guy is doing data chain of custody on a cube. lol

    In cases where it does fall into restricted commercial interest or other restrictions only a USA citizen can work on the data.

    This agreement poses no restrictiona on you that aren’t already present if you are in the USA. And you shouldn’t need to worry, unless you actively are designing or stealing data to hand over to a USA “enemy” for purposes of espionage , war, weapons etc

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    To avoid being sanctioned themselves

    It’s helpful to follow if you want to deal with the US government

  • chalk46@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    oh yeah, I’m sure that’ll work 👍
    about as effective as a mystical incantation

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I kind of feel coerced by that text into sending a copy of OpenSUSE Leap to some obscure nuclear missile programme now, just for the sake of it

  • 0x0@programming.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    I thought OpenSUSE is German, so why would you export it?

    The only rationale is that it ships with cryptography that’s made in 'murica and probably stored in US servers, hence the export warning.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Because their lawyers said so. Canonical is based in England so their lawyers didn’t say so. I don’t know where the Debian project is based. OpenSUSE is based in Germany so I’m not sure why they feel the need, but I assume that’s what the lawyers said they need to do.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It seems it’s often unclear whether it does. A user under this post has linked Debian’s wiki page that writes about this, and they don’t have a definitive answer either, just pointers on how to make sure that you are safe

  • socphoenix@midwest.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    This has to do with encryption protocols. Offhand my assumption is either they are trying to be extra cautious as the rules are incredibly complex, or they have a different algorithm included by default that would be subject to those rules.

    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It is my limited understanding that encryption beyond a certain level is illegal to export from the US. For example one of the positives of OpenBSD being based in Canada was is the ability to include crypto at a level that that the US wouldn’t permit to export.

      From https://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html

      Edit: tense

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It hasn’t been illegal for a while now. Encryption is protected under free speech. (The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in our favor)