On 05.03.2011 14:50, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: > Yes, the U.S. government requires that we restrict access to certain > countries, due to export control laws (e.g. the potential for open-source > crypto code to be distributed.) Click on the 'terms' link at the bottom of > any page, and you can see in section 5: > > "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 or access Content available through the Google Code website."
Is google at least trying to convince your government that the exact wording of this law is wrong because it is nonsense (and contraproductive) to apply it to open source software and must therefore be changed? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
