Re: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others

Salam every body
I also was informed that sun projects (including open source ones) and IBM research websites ban syrian IPs, maybe this can be resolved with proxies (which usually slows down the already slow internet connection)

Ironically many so called freedom advocates launch really BIG attacks on syrian and other governments for their "selective filtering" of information. where are those voices when discussing the other way around ?.

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1. SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others (Bashar)
2. Re: SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
(Maja van der Velden)
3. Re: SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
(Hamed Al-Suhli)
4. Re: SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
(Youssef Chahibi)

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From: Bashar <big at kuwaitnet dot net>
To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:22:05 +0300
Subject: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته

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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...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maja van der Velden <maja at xs4all dot nl>
To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:24:05 +0100
Subject: Re: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
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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From: Hamed Al-Suhli <hamed at e3rab dot com>
To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:45:27 +0200
Subject: Re: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
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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From: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>
To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:54:03 +0100
Subject: Re: [general] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others
qutrub.arabeyes.org is hosted by Arabeyes for this specific reason.

> 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.
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