SourceForge closes its doors to Iranians

Posted Jan 27, 2010 by Apple
Vatankhah Hedayat, Iran's free software user and featuring various contributions in projects like Fedora or the same Linux kernel, reporting on his blog that the last few days
(UpVery.com) Jan 27, 2010 -- Vatankhah Hedayat, Iran's free software user and featuring various contributions in projects like Fedora or the same Linux kernel, reporting on his blog that the last few days have completely blocked access to people coming from Iran.

It's actually quite common both on Google Code and SourceForge, and block access to the countries in the list of those sanctioned by the United States. The problem is that, as you claim Hedayat, governments and hackers can bypass these restrictions without too much trouble and the real losers are the users foot.

These practices are also against the spirit of open source and free software and could even pose some legal problems with copyleft licenses like the GPL.

Fortunately, free software projects are still many places on the Internet where his base of operations and the leaders themselves are free to choose whether communicants or not such practices. This listing offers alternatives to consider as launchpad or CodePlex. For its part, Hedayat can not be more clear and has already announced he will leave SourceForge.

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