[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Feb 1 23:28:45 CET 2010


On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:29:21PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > Because of USA policy, Sourceforge ??has blocked users from Cuba, Iran
> > North Corea and other "rogue countries".
> 
> Thinking about this a bit more, it is totally ridiculous. It's not as
> if SourceForge created all the projects, it simply hosts them. And
> probably a crap load of those project are developed by many
> non-American "non roque" countries. I'm pretty sure SourceForge is now
> in violation of the GPL as well, which is all about freedom to
> software (including access to the software and source code).

(I doubt that, the Terms of Service probably exclude that.)





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