As opposed to what? If there is an export-control problem (not likely), do you really expect SourceForge's TOS to protect you?

Why the hell does anyone even use SourceForge anymore? Their tools suck, the site is beyond slow and plastered with ads, and you have to play download roulette with their crappy 90s-era mirroring system. Plus you get crazy decrees like this from whatever's going on at the top. It's not like there aren't alternatives these days. Google Code is awesome by comparison.

The problem with this is and always has been that there is a sizable group of people who are neither drooling simpletons nor "arch-tweakers." I don't want to "know about the GConf schemas," whatever the hell those are, or screw around in your version of RegEdit. When I go into a preferences dialog, I'm not always just trying to flip a particular bit or turn something off. One of the things I like about GUIs, as opposed to doing everything from the command line, is that it is possible to (visually) explore the application and learn what it is capable of doing. When I run a new application I evaluate/learn it by opening windows and dialogs and looking to see what's inside them.

Most GNOME applications at this point in time are excellent, well-constructed and powerful pieces of software. But if you just poke around in them trying to figure them out, they seem like cheap mockups. It doesn't feel like good software. A preferences panel that doesn't let me explore feels incomplete and flimsy. The bottom line is that in a GNOME app I usually do not come away having learned something new just by using it. I don't want to read the manual just to learn that a feature exists (although I will if I'm having trouble using it) or scroll through "keys" in GConf. It's the same nonsense that stuck me with flashing GIFS in Firefox for months after I started using it, until someone told me I could type in "about:config", scroll down to they key "image.animation_mode", and edit the value to "once". Or you can download an extension. Or you can edit ".mozilla/config/crazypeople/netscape_foobar32.js" or some other crazy file somewhere on my hard drive. It doesn't make any sense. I should be able to explore the majority of the useful functionality just by opening the application and clicking through it.