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SourceForge bars 5 nations from open source downloads
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01...ess_filtering/
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It's kind of the price of being located in the USA, big brother is always eyeing trade. The fact that most interesting software should be available from free download sides or piracy-sectors of the net, from beyond the reach of US legalities, not withstanding >_>.
They will just download it somewhere else, or sneak under the fence lol. In the USA, it's not uncommon for software EULAs (especially militainment) to make it a violation to break the EULA, and share it with anyone on certain lists of places/people the US has denied your right to trade with.
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I don't know what to say. They're hypocrites and a disgrace to the OSS community. What do they hope to achieve? That's just not right.
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As mentioned in the blog, sourceforge, regrets that they had to take this step, but urge you to write to your congressman/senator about this.
This is affecting some of our members. For example Gag the graphical bootloader is hosted on http://gag.sourceforge.net/ We have two forum members from Iran, Vigol and mfaridi. So these will not be able to download GAG anymore, while Gag's developer is Spanish IIRC.
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Yes his nationality is Afghan, but from a few PM exchanges on bsdforums.org I know he works for a company in Iran, at least at that time
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I haven't read the original article but in any case banning people from select countries from downloading free software is not cool at all.
This is off-topic but sometime back I was denied access to some forum because they had banned IP address originating from my Country. Ok, so, I sort of understand why they did that but still it really pissed me off. Sometimes you got to do it for practical reasons but to the person on the receiving end it feels like an insult. Last edited by ephemera; 27th January 2010 at 08:47 AM. |
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No, it is not cool. But the US government feels that a trade embargo for these countries is in order, and this includes software.
As jggimi and the sourceforge article point out, getting sued is even less cool. Your beef is with the US government, not with sourceforge ...
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Actually, Cuban commerce falls under special regulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_with_the_Enemy_Act
I know this because I live less than 2 KM from Canada, and used to enjoy cigars. (No, I have never transported Cubanos over the border, but I have heard that one should not visit the Havana House in a vehicle with US plates.) Last edited by jggimi; 27th January 2010 at 03:46 PM. |
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