>   On 10/06/10 14:32, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> > I believe the US
> > government put pressure on sourceforge.net to adhere to export restrictions
> > even if the developer is from outside of the US.  Could it be that the same
> > happened to FreeBSD and that's why the license change?
> >
> 
> IIRC, sourceforge was required by some US agency to block IPs from 
> various countries or else remove the given projects from the site.  It 
> boiled down to "We don't want to do this, but we have to, unless we want 
> to locate our servers on non-US soil."

Such as FreeBSD, Linux, and OpenSolaris, which all use this code?

So much for freedom.

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