[c01n]

This is absolutely disgusting, they should be ashamed to call themselves free software, they are violating the License and the principles of Free software, which is meant for the end user and not for corporations and governments. People living in oppressive regimes benefit more from free software than any other. If they can do this the License means nothing to them, they are just leeching of the work of free software developers, We should all boycott them for violating the License.

[josephcsible]

Nothing in the GPL requires you to give the software to anyone who wants it. It just says that if you do give it to someone, you need to give them the source code too and not impose any restrictions of your own on what they can do with it. There's nothing wrong with what happened here from a software freedom perspective.

[grayhatter]

Totally, how dare they follow the orders of their government under penalty of prosecution. They should be willing to go to jail to protect the terms of the GPL!

[c01n]

Don't use the license if you cannot uphold it's principles.

[grayhatter]

So Fedora should close up shop, and delete everything?

What if they disagree with your interpretation of the meaning and requirements of the GPL?

[ekianjo]

The principle of the GPL does not happen in a vacuum. It's based on regulations of a larger state, like it or not.