Aiet Kolkhi wrote:
> Although Sun may not distribute code to NK, this does not mean Sun can
> legally refrain from adding NK support to its product.
a) I am not a lawyer.
b) I haven't read the Embargo sanctions recently. They might have changed.
> all the people of NK having full access to the product.
Technically, all US based servers are required to deny access to IP
addresses within any of those embargoed countries. Furthermore, they
are required to deny access to nationals of those embargoed countries.
[In theory, the US Government would like to think that once they list
a country as being on the "embargoed list", the country collapses
instantly, because the rest of the world will follow suit. As a
practical matter, the only countries that pay attention to that, are
those that are run by us based terrorist organizations.]
> Evidently, there is a hole in the applicable law,
It isn't a hole. The point of the embargo is to completely destabilize
the country, by attacking both the morale, and economy. That it is a
strategy that is doomed to failure is irrelevant.
Daniel wrote:
>How do other projects solve this problem? (/Do/ they have a solution?)
Most countries are much more intelligent than the US, in dealing with
countries that they don't like.
Possible solutions:
i) The entire project is based in a country that has a more
enlightened foreign policy that the US. [Which basically means any
country other than the US, its puppets, and the countries that it the
us terrorist organizations run.] [This is the approach that PGP took.]
ii) The project is forked with the main development going on the US,
and the forked development in a third party country.
Offhand, I can't think of any projects that have taken this step.
In either instance, the project has to ensure that all the servers
connected to the project are not physically located in the US. This
automatically eliminates most, if not all of the free server space for
software projects. [And considering that webspace in other countries
is usually much more expensive than in the US, you have a funding
problem from day 1.]
Jeongkyu Kim wrote:
> nobody mentioned about it and even his patches had been accepted.
I am going to suggest that nobody in the L10N list even thought about
the embargoed list, and that his contributions might be rejected
because of US Presidential Directives. [They generally trump the US
Constitution.]
>If my patch or contribution was turned down not by technical reason
but by political reason, it might be enough to make me upset.
Understandably so.
xan
jonathon
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