GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
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Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#2This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub's ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you'll see this there too.
I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from a US sanctioned country contribute to my repo will I be banned? Hopefully mindshare moves to alternatives in due time.
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#3This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub's ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you'll see this there too. I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from…
GitLab is fantastic, but GitHub has the most eyeballs and best discoverability features. As long as that remains true, GitHub will remain a better place to launch an open source product than alternatives.
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#4This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub's ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you'll see this there too. I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from…
This seems peculiar since Rob Eisenberg (author of that tweet and lead of Aurelia) works for Microsoft.
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#5time to migrate and redeploy, perhaps reface things and setup a new repository.
the trade sanctions thing is about this repository involving paid service:
https://github.com/aurelia/aurelia
"Due to U.S. trade controls law restrictions, paid GitHub organization services have been restricted. For free organization accounts, you may have access to free GitHub public repository services (such as access to GitHub Pages and public repositories used for open source projects) for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes. "
so it looks like its not the most stable place to make money.
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#6What is Aurelia? Why would it be sanctioned?
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#7What is Aurelia? Why would it be sanctioned?
https://github.com/aurelia
"A standards-based, front-end framework designed for high-performing, ambitious applications."
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#8What is Aurelia? Why would it be sanctioned?
It looks like a JS frontend framework. I've never used it. I have no idea why it would be sanctioned. Bizarrely Aurelia 1.0 at https://github.com/aurelia/framework has a banner across its top indicating trade sanctions, but the new version Aurelia 2.0 doesn't https://github.com/aurelia/aurelia.
Aurelia's developers suspect it's because they have contributors from sanctioned countries. That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. https://twitter.com/AureliaEffect/status/1240664151753551873
EDIT: And the banner is gone... Just when I was going to save some screenshots.
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#9What is Aurelia? Why would it be sanctioned?
this is aurelia:
https://github.com/aurelia/aurelia#introduction
and this is the given reason for sanction:
"This repository has been archived with read-only access. Due to U.S. trade controls law restrictions, paid GitHub organization services have been restricted. For free organization accounts, you may have access to free GitHub public repository services (such as access to GitHub Pages and public repositories used for open source projects) for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes. Please contact the organization admin and read about GitHub and Trade Controls for more information. "
https://github.blog/2019-09-12-global-software-collaboration...
Re: GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
#10What is Aurelia? Why would it be sanctioned?
The author of the tweet says "A popular open source JavaScript framework with tens of thousands of customers worldwide. The project has been public for 5yrs+, managed by a US company, whose owner is even a GitHub Insider and long time open source leader (15+ yrs)."