Google does the same: http://code.google.com/projecthosting/terms.html Pretty ridiculous in this day and age.
At least not Github http://help.github.com/terms/ and Bitbucket http://bitbucket.org/site/terms/
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#12Good on them.
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#13Gah, I wish there was a contact link on there that wasn't twitter. The typo "fondamental" bugs me, then when looking for contact info I found "Developper" done over and over.
Just for the sake of explanation, "fondamental" and "développeur" are French words.
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#14Gah, I wish there was a contact link on there that wasn't twitter. The typo "fondamental" bugs me, then when looking for contact info I found "Developper" done over and over.
Just for the sake of explanation, "fondamental" and "développeur" are French words.
and 'aply' and 'gorvernment'?
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#15Google does the same: http://code.google.com/projecthosting/terms.html Pretty ridiculous in this day and age.
The law is ridiculous or complying with it?
I think some people live in a fairy tale world. North Korea, for example, recently sunk a South Korean ship killing 41 people. There really are bad people in the world.
Personally, I think the Cuba issue is legacy and it's probably time to resolve it. The fear of communism is long gone. Now I think it's just a matter of a bunch of rich voters in Florida who want their nationalized land back, which probably isn't going to happen.
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#16Google does the same: http://code.google.com/projecthosting/terms.html Pretty ridiculous in this day and age.
The law is ridiculous or complying with it? I think some people live in a fairy tale world. North Korea, for example, recently sunk a South Korean ship killing 41 people. There really are bad people in the world. Personally, I think the Cuba issue is legacy and it's probably time to resolve it. The fear of communism is long gone. Now I think it's just a matter of a bunch of rich voters in Florida who want their natio…
The US has killed far more than 41 people with lethal injections alone.
But that is irrelevant. Why shouldn't North Korea's residents be allowed to work on Free Software?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The law is ridiculous or complying with it? I think some people live in a fairy tale world. North Korea, for example, recently sunk a South Korean ship killing 41 people. There really are bad people in the world. Personally, I think the Cuba issue is legacy and it's probably time to resolve it. The fear of communism is long gone. Now I think it's just a matter of a bunch of rich voters in Florida who want their natio…
The US has killed far more than 41 people with lethal injections alone. But that is irrelevant. Why shouldn't North Korea's residents be allowed to work on Free Software?
Open source developers working at the one, heavily monitored, most likely site-restricted cybercafé in Pyongyang?
Syria, Iran and Cuba are different matters entirely, but people in North Korea are limited by having no Internet connectivity in the first place, than by being blocked by sites in the US. You may as well ask why the civilizations of Andromeda are stopping us from selling our wares there.
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#18What is a good alternative to Google Code and Sourceforge? Some platform which doesn't do discrimination?
And why so many open source application just suck this up? Has anyone seen a comment from a big open source player who uses sourceforge or Google Code?
People shouting to China for censorship and right here right now Google Code and Sourceforge practically blocks multiple countries at a time for months maybe more and no one cares?
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#19SourceForge doesn't have much choice in this, unless they're willing to violate US law.
For what it's worth, SourceForge allows projects to determine whether their downloads are subject to export laws, and to disable the blocks[1]. Support for this was added in early February, several months before the notepad-plus-plus.org domain was registered. There's no technical or legal reason why N++ had to move off SourceForge; they're simply throwing a hissy fit.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-SourceForge-remov...
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#20Google does the same: http://code.google.com/projecthosting/terms.html Pretty ridiculous in this day and age.
The law is ridiculous or complying with it? I think some people live in a fairy tale world. North Korea, for example, recently sunk a South Korean ship killing 41 people. There really are bad people in the world. Personally, I think the Cuba issue is legacy and it's probably time to resolve it. The fear of communism is long gone. Now I think it's just a matter of a bunch of rich voters in Florida who want their natio…
I agree, it's a law and they're following it. Sourceforge and Google are not responsible for that.
As far as North Korea, um... so, when the US kills 25 Afghans at a wedding ("oops! my video-game like predator drone readout made it look like they were definitely terrorists") what does that mean? I guess France should stop exporting Notepad++ to the US. Correct?
No, the issue is whether 'exporting' a text editor to N. Korea would REALLY make any difference. Perhaps the clueless, bribed, caviar-stuffed and prostitute-sucked morons in Congress think so, but most of them can hardly even send an email.