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How does this work considering PHP is heavily made up of code from Zend (which was an Israeli company) Can Iranian-built websites not use PHP?
They were an American company that took investment money from an Israeli VC, that doesn't make them an Israeli company.
This whole story makes me sad.
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
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Edit: Sorry I completely misread it. I thought he said just "merged" it instead of encouraging "merge" it. Still interesting to learn about Behdad though, cool stuff about localization and language support. Interestingly merged by Behdad Esfahbod who is also iranian. He was even arrested by the iranian government in the past > Esfahbod claims that he was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence ech…
This type of internet "stupidity" is in every government DNA lol
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
How is accepting a PR account to having a relationship with an individual. Popular OS repository would have code contribution from 1000s of contributor, it's possible that the maintainer don't personally know a majority of them. This just don't make sense.
It doesn't make sense. But they're in a country where the law also might not make sense. Technical / administrative issues aside here I can understand how an individual might fear some sort of retaliation... even if the basis for it is absurd, the consequences could be very real.
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I get why people should not thumbs down and the whole tough guy angle, but I have never heard US putting someone in jail for a merged PR. Many of the big open source projects are american citizen lead and they accept PRs from all around the world.
Tell that to GitHub to force and ban Iranian github repos that were private or gitlab completely non reachable for Iranians due to GCP policies.
2. Countries have the right to have trade sanctions towards other countries. Does US abuse its rights some times? Absolutely. But does not make it not their right.
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In every country there are laws that don't make sense. Yes, the same can be said for your own country. The quantity and ridiculousness can be argued, but there's no place on Earth that's "good", just "better". For any given person, they will have some disagreements regarding the body of law that applies to them.
>but there's no place on Earth that's "good", just "better". I don't know what you mean by that. I get the rest, but not that.
The extent to which you agree with that is a question of political philosophy :).
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
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