I commented about SUSE having a similar export policy as Fedora in that post, and from what I read, it applies to OpenSUSE, too.
I found this forum post about this topic:
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I mean, I honestly don't see a point for using fedora or suse with all the other distros we already have.
I use Garuda in my gaming machine, manjaro in my work laptop. And have a usb drive with puppy, mint, debian, tails and kali.
Sure but I do enjoy the idea of rolling release and I don't want to handle the potential conflicts from AUR with native repositories, I also like yast, and I feel a little annoyed with the implication of your comment, unless I'm mistaken, in which case I apologize, it seems that you're implying that my choice of open suse is poorly thought through therefore I should consider changing.
Sorry if I sound that way to you, english ain't my first language so my sentence composition is poor sometimes.
I don't think suse is a bad choice of system. What I mean is that I think that with all the many choices we have at linux you can do fine with something else that is not tied to a company with some bias against people like us.
Maybe you could use any distro with distro box? are you familiar with this concept?
Oh I sure I could but I like suse a bit and if it is not true that it blocks distribution I wouldnt reconsider using it, and would still feel alright recommending it when it suits the needs of the person in question, but the lack of an equivalent legal page on suse's site, left me unsure of where to look for that information
Strange, I haven't experienced any conflicts of AUR vs native repos, but I do experience conflicts of native vs external repositories in openSUSE Tumbleweed all the time.
(I'm not judging your choice, just saying my experience is different.)
On topic, I kind of wonder why would SUSE be blocked in Cuba. It's not an American company, after all.
The commercial blockade of US states that any product with even a small percentage (there is a minimal required number which I don't remember) of anything produced in the US, even if that thing is the technology for building the thing, cannot be traded with Cuba or DRPK and I'm not sure if the Venezuelans one is still up
On the subject of arch and AUR I managed to get into dependency hell a couple times because of AUR packages and my own inexperience
OpenSUSE is not downstream of Fedora, however SUSE has the same thing in their terms of use
I'm gonna keep using Fedora anyway, there's nothing else quite like Fedora Kinoite
By what it seems they put it there more as a way to reduce liability, in case the US comes a looking, because it does not describe any tools or measures to prevent it, in fact it even states that it is not geoblocked anywhere
PS: forgive my ignorance, I thought that any fedora based distro, would be considered downstream of Fedora if that's not the case what would be the actual definition of downstream? Honestly asking here, just wanna understand better
That's the thing though, SUSE distros aren't Fedora-based, they're entirely separate distros, they just share the RPM package management system
Holy cow, I really thought it was, that's pretty cool actually