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The website indicates there isn't a legal way to purchase Sailfish OS outside of the EU. Is this something they enforce, or can I bypass this with a VPN becaus
by CobaltFire 5y ago
The website indicates there isn't a legal way to purchase Sailfish OS outside of the EU.
Is this something they enforce, or can I bypass this with a VPN because they don't actually care but have to say that for legal/economic reasons?
- m4rtink 5y agoIt's totally artificial limitations, solely for buying the Sailfish X license. Likely due to support obligations and/or due to software patent situation outside of EU. In practice you just need to buy the license from a EU IP (so via VPN, europen VPS, etc.) and then you are good to go from anywhere in the world. This can be seen on these global stats for the Sailfish OS community software repository: https://openrepos.net/statistics/global https://openrepos.net/statistics/global Lots of traffic from outside the EU. Also I took my Sailfish OS device for a trip across Japan twice, and everything worked fine for me as well. :) So in general I recommend getting a EU based VPN and then buying the Sailfish X license for the device of your choice (I would personally recommend xperia 10 II). If you succeed, then I would get the device, just in case. :)