[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 22:29, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 31 January 2010 21:46, svaa <svaa at xxx> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > 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).
>

There are American laws regarding a lot of product types such as encryption,
data maining, data manipulation etc.. that some countries are not allowed to
have.
SourceForge can not guarantee what source codes exists and how view them, so
they must by the American law to block all access.

I think it's stupid because it hurts only normal people and not the
government of a specific country, but America is a very narrow minded place
in the way they do things imho.



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