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Seems a real shame there's no mainstream alternative not subject to the US' belligerent foreign policy. Does anyone know if Gitlab is subject to the same restrictions? The sanctioned countries and regions fall even further behind and open source developers have to deal with the fallout of America's broken foreign policy.
AFAIK its probably not illegal to run your own Git/SVN server...
Reminds me of a US based PC vendor(I think it was Dell or IBM) whose web site store has a check box like : I do not use this product for nuclear weapon development.
Wow! What kind of product was it? I assume it wasn’t a laptop or a general purpose server hardware.
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I would not be optimistic about that working as any kind of legal loophole to get around US export restrictions. I don't know any reason it would. (I am not a lawyer).
What if users had the option to host repositories in EU servers run by the EU subsidiary? There's no exporting then right?
These rules are so stupid and actually hurts no one but the poor individual developer, a few years ago I used to live in Syria before the events. I had to find 3rd party mirrors or VPNs for the stupidest shit... like Nvidia graphics driver, adobe flash player, Java runtime and silly stuff like that, some ISPs had public download pages where you can find these general utilities most of it was outdated but does the job…
It's also a huge waste of time for companies in the US, and to companies all over the world that use US-based services like GitHub. > GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles. Not only is this sentence an affron…
I feel for all my peers who I spent my undergrad with in Iran.
These archaic laws need to be deleted. America needs to be shamed for making it so hard for people to gain skills in these countries. Companies need to be shamed for not challenging these laws.
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It's also a huge waste of time for companies in the US, and to companies all over the world that use US-based services like GitHub. > GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles. Not only is this sentence an affron…
You mean like this? https://github.com/intel-aero
So anybody developing any kind of drone and hosting on github is breaking the law?
OT: > On which countries and territories are U.S. government sanctions applied? > Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. Crimea? Isn't that part of Russia now, so what is the point of sanctions against Crimea? To affect Crimean policy wouldn't they need to sanction Russia, not Crimea?
So you can take a ship with X to Russia proper, but not to Crimea. Or you can work with a Russian bank, but not a Russian bank based in Crimea.
It's like how Hong Kong is considered a separate territory, despite being a part of China.