SourceForge.net banned Sudan, Syria, Cuba, Iran and North Korea

[JSeymour]

It's not the country that's an embarrassment, it's the politicians in charge of it.

And who elects those politicians?

[cprofitt]

And who elects those politicians?

A small percentage of people living in the country...

Oh... and those of us that do vote only get a choice between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dumber usually.

[logari81]

This decision of sourceforge.net even in its second variant is absolutely incompatible with the most common free software license, namely GPL.

GPL refuses any restrictions even if they are motivated by clearly moral arguments, like no military use:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

Which means that if I write a software and I want to publish it under the GPL license I can't prevent neither USA nor Iran from using my software to kill each other more effectively .

I suppose, this decision in GPL has been done on the base that moral and laws are interpreted differently in different civilizations. It would be a major problem for the generality of GPL to get involved in these issues.

Sourcefourge.net has decided to get involved in such a problem and lost its compatibility with GPL. By setting the restriction on by default, I consider SF incompatible with what it should represent. I will never host a new project in SF.

[yasir.elsharif]

1. I did not know this issue abut GBL but since so, I think we should all pull our applications from there and host them somewhere else.
2. I think US lifted Internet sanctions on Iran, Sudan, Cuba on the 9th on this March
http://news.techworld.com/networking...-cuba/?olo=rss
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2...nt_9556889.htm

[tgalati4]

If you do tatoo an RSA key on your forehead, make sure it's covered by a turban or kaffia, otherwise you will get stopped at airport checkpoints.

[diesch]

1. I did not know this issue abut GBL but since so, I think we should all pull our applications from there and host them somewhere else.

I've always prefered European hosters, like http://www.berlios.de, http://gna.org or https://www.launchpad.net

[rd1381]

Thansk diesch.


i think for the time being we will use proxy services to access SourceForge.net

but i hope that they add a mirror outside the US.

and thanks god that Launchpad.net is not in US.

launchpad now uses goddady for ssl certificate and godaddy blocks all access from iran so basically no launchpad in iran.
hooray for software freedom.

[ario]

launchpad now uses goddady for ssl certificate and godaddy blocks all access from iran so basically no launchpad in iran.
hooray for software freedom.

I Confirm this BUG!

[Elfy]

Closed - necromancy