Syrians banned from google code and other services ages ago,
but
sf.net and rapidshare...etc banned us days ago, politically it's other US movement against us,
but from open source prospective a BIG question is rising:
Is the open source really open?
OR just opened for US peer friends, or pets if not a peer?
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Maja van der Velden
<maja at xs4all dot nl> wrote:
It is already banned.
See: http://code.google.com/tos.html point 5:
Accessing Google Code website and its hosted contents is banned from countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Bashar wrote:
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته
"Prohibited Persons
You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from receiving services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction, including without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, detailed at http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm (or successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post Content to, or access Content available through, SourceForge.net."
copy from SF Terms Of Use http://wa9.la/c1x
seems time to shift your projects or atleast have a copy of them at code.google.com , but who knows google is a US based company might banned these too in future...
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