Syrians banned from google code and other services ages ago, but sf.net and rapidshare...etc banned us days ago, politically it's other US movement against us, but from open source prospective a BIG question is rising: Is the open source really open? OR just opened for US peer friends, or pets if not a peer?
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Maja van der Velden <[email protected]> wrote: > It is already banned. > > See: http://code.google.com/tos.html point 5: > > Accessing Google Code website and its hosted contents is banned from > countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction > list, including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. > > > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Bashar wrote: > > السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته >> >> "Prohibited Persons >> >> You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from receiving >> services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction, including without >> limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists >> issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, >> detailed at >> http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm (or >> successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the United States >> Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North >> Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post Content to, or access Content available >> through, SourceForge.net." >> >> copy from SF Terms Of Use http://wa9.la/c1x >> >> seems time to shift your projects or atleast have a copy of them at >> code.google.com , but who knows google is a US based company might banned >> these too in future... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- Hamed Al-Suhli http://e3rab.com
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