A contributor is not allowed to use Fedora legally?

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh_at_farsiweb.info)
Date: 09/21/04

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    I was wondering if I can do anything about not being able to use Fedora
    Core legally. To use software that is partly my own (I am a copyright
    co-holder for Mozilla, FriBidi, GNOME translations (sometimes under the
    name "FarsiWeb", Pango, etc), I need to "warrant that I am not located
    in Iran":

    http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/x86_64/os/eula.txt

    But the problem is that I live there, and have been living there while
    working on all those pieces of software

    Is Fedora allowed to do that, even when I have copylefted parts of the
    software under GPL and LGPL? Won't that be adding more restrictions, and
    against the explicit text in the licenses that says "You may not impose
    any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
    granted herein"? Also, isn't the same EULA claim that the whole
    collective work is under GPL? If yes, how can it add those restrictions?

    I would appreciate any kind of comment or recommendations, on-list or
    off-list. This has somehow created a mental problem for me...

    Roozbeh Pournader 

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