SourceForge no longer serving open source to US sanctioned countries

I don't have code hosted on SourceForge, because I would remove it, and host it elsewhere, obviously some place that doesn't block access to the code. Mind you, it's a bit silly trying to block Open Source Code, A bit like damning a river with a fishing net.

One more silly bureaucratic brillant star !

Somewhere in the world, some young budding terrorist child is being bereft of Frets on Fire, and will now be unable to conquer the US by being a guitar-god.

You know what's funny?

Bin Laden & Co bought their encrypted walkie-talkies in the US, without any problems. But people from abroad buying stuff at companies is hard to monitor, disabling millions to use SourceForge is easier and cheaper.

Quoting:Change You Can Believe

or is it, really?

Quoting:No Change At All

Sorry, I really get confused by the message's discordance with actions and the shouters insistence on cynical betrayal.

Befuddled as usual,

YBT

This violates the Open Source definition, if I'm not mistaken.

Many, perhaps most, Open Source projects have contributors all over the world. What makes the US government think it can shut them out of what they themselves wrote?

Everyone,

Of course the message violates TOS, but never take Your Buddy Txt. seriously without explicit tags indicating [it/s/he/whatever] is attempting to speak the Truth..

YBT

The real problem is that they do this type of thing and then there is less effort made to do things that actually make a difference. I could share some TOS-violating stories.

MBT, your speaking the truth is a TOS violation?

I find it interesting that, if you follow the wikipedia link, codplex (Microsoft) does NOT show any such restrictions. Now maybe I've been out of it for a while or something, but I thought Microsoft was a good law abiding US citizen.

So, howcome they don't have this restriction?

Without question they do have the restriction, it's just a matter of whether they are following it.

"Hi Habib, this is your cousin Habim, can you let me proxy through your connection in Canada?"

In all honesty that call doesn't even need to be made, it's simple enough just to hit a public proxy. And to think, people get paid to come up with this brilliance.

tc,

Quoting: [anyone] speaking the truth is a TOS violation?

Certainly if it's italicized.

Your [Special*] Buddy Txt.

* For tc, only!

.> ...but I thought Microsoft was a good law abiding US citizen

Whatever gave you that idea? Microsoft does what's good for Microsoft. If that happens to be legal, so much the better.

@jdixon

Sarcasm.

> Sarcasm.

OK. I apologize for not getting it.

Quoting:Sarcasm.

You will get a note from my legal representative shortly, since I am certain that is an intregal part of my IP portfolio. How dare you and on my astroturf?

YBT

@TxtEdMacs

I'm sure I patented that back when I started using computers in the early 80's.

:)

Interesting one: Someone writes some cryptocode in Canada, then sends it to Sourceforge, then he would still be able to post it on Sunsite of the University of Alberta as well isn't it?

What's interesting is that some Western governments stimulate the development of software to work around restrictions in China / Iran / Turkey. However, the very same software can be used to prevent the crypto-export ban.

Now, where it really gets interesting is if there was a cloud. Let's say Sourceforge was a cloud in multiple countries, than it would be hard to prove some code is "physically" in the US. Maybe host it on Amazon EC2 or so?