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Cuba? I'm not a North American, but isn't all the trouble with Cuba over now? I recall a few months back that Nelson Mandela was on the terrorist watch list in the USA - And as such he wouldn't / couldn't enter the country. Perhaps this is one of those "laws" that was forgotten?
US citizens are still forbidden from travelling to Cuba, and an embargo forbidding US companies from trading with Cuba is still in effect.
SourceForge 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 SourceForg…
Agreed. As soon as this setting became available, I simply went it and set it to "does not incorporate ... encryption of any kind" for all of my projects that do not use encryption.
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Agreed. As soon as this setting became available, I simply went it and set it to "does not incorporate ... encryption of any kind" for all of my projects that do not use encryption.
Wait-a-minute. Exportation of cryptography technology is still limited in the US? This law is long obsolete, why does it still apply?
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I don't understand, do you mean there's something wrong with the name 'Kate' (KDE Advanced text Editor), that the appearance and conduct Kate developers are not professional, or that there is something unprofessional about the program?
The name, obviously. Doesn't matter what it stands for, it's a girls first name.
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SourceForge 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 SourceForg…
Note however than any project that involves encryption at all - including just linking to encryption libraries or using OS-provided functions - cannot tick that box. This doesn't seem to apply to Notepad++, but these days it applies to a great deal of apps. Any that can make SSL connections, for a start.
Gah, 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.
Sadly, Notepad++ has never been the most professional project out there. It's decent, though I tend to think people who are obsessed with it need to back away from Windows for a second and try Kate. So, I think this might illustrate that high on their features list should be 'English Spellcheck'.
You can run Kate on MS Windows now (in common with the rest of KDE4, http://windows.kde.org/).
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Why would Cuban exiles want to embargo their former home?
My understanding is that many of them fled following the Cuban Revolution and subsequent nationalization of property; the ones who were in Cuba at the time are likely either very old or dead by now, but presumably their descendants still harbor resentment over it. From the associated Wikipedia article: "Cuba began expropriating land and private property under the auspices of the Agrarian Reform law of May 1959. Cuban…
I know Sourceforge has to comply with US laws, but they still need to follow the GPL too.
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Unfortunately there's a large, politically-influential group of Cuban exiles in Florida. In pretty much every recent presidential election cycle, Florida has been a crucial swing state that could go to either side, so neither party has wanted to upset that group by normalizing relations with Cuba. From a political standpoint there's a lot to lose and nothing to gain from it, unfortunately.
Why would Cuban exiles want to embargo their former home?
The idea that the Cubans in Florida are mostly immigrants from 50 years ago isn't supported by data, there's a constant flow of Cubans fleeing Cuba. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_American#Demographics)
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The name, obviously. Doesn't matter what it stands for, it's a girls first name.
Damn right! Girly program languages suck. That's why I never even bothered to try Ada, and why my favourite is Python. (you nong)