On 18 April 2010 03:59, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi All > > Carnë just mentioned that SourceForge blocks users from certain > countries. They do this to comply with US export regulations. As a > project administrator I can disable this blocking. This, however, > requires that I agree to the following text:
On 27 April 2010 21:00, David Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are only 6 countries that the US law is stricter about as it limits > exporting of uncontrolled technologies to these 6 countries. These six > countries being Libya, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Cuba and North Korea... For export > to all other countries European rules are just as strict as the US ones. > There is no where you can go to get around the Waasenaar treaty. > > If telling you that you can't get around it is dealing with it, then consider > it dealt with. I don't think the problem that needed to be solved was whether we had to be under control or not but that if we needed to be under control, those countries would not have access to octave-forge via sourceforge. Since the USA seems to be the only country to have this rule there would be plenty of getting around. The rules seemed to be to control weapons and the kind which I guess may make sense, it's the blocking to distribute free software to countries that they hold grudges against that doesn't make any sense. How sourceforge claimed that they add to block all access from these countries because as an american company they can't export/import from those countries, and then changed it to this rule about controlled technologies rule is beyond me. I already feel dirty enough for having to read the difference between copyright and copyleft. Anyway, is good to know that we are not under control. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
