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Comments: 7 + - Sourceforge Bans the "Evils" from Free Software on Saturday January 23, @02:36PM neo00
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neo00 writes "Syrians, Sudanese, N. Koreans, Cubans and Iranians will now be prohbitied from downloading or contributing to FOSS projects hosted by Sourceforge.net. According to sf.net terms of use, persons residing one of the countries on which the US government imposes sanctions, will be banned from accessing the site contents. An act that violates the Freedoms of Free Software and the "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups" from the OSS definition.
US sanctions on these countries were initiated or hardened during the administration of Bush who called them the "Axis of Evil"."
US sanctions on these countries were initiated or hardened during the administration of Bush who called them the "Axis of Evil"."
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We've requested comment from corporate overlords (Score:1)
May post this once we know some more of the background. (SF.net and Slashdot share corporate owenrship.)
Re:We've requested comment from corporate overlord (Score:1)
Got an initial response; more to come. It's worth noting (as Arabcrunch does) that Google Code bans participants from that same list, as well.
Re: (Score:2)
You're the editor, you should feel free to edit the story. :-)
My perspective and some background information (Score:2)
Hi, I'm one of members of the RabbitVCS team [rabbitvcs.org], the project commended in the linked article by Abdulrahman Idlbi [arabcrunch.com] for our decision to "work around" the export ban, though I am not entirely sure if we deserve all of the credit given. I do not speak for the rest of the team, though I do believe they share the same opinion on this matter as I do.
Early September 2009 Bashir Al-Noimi informed us of the problems he had in trying to access our project website at Google Code (and by extension, our software) from his h
unethical, contradition, double sanctions (Score:1)