Actually, yes, we've been in on and off discussion with the doc and state department since the advent of project hosting and personally, since I helped launch Sourceforge. Depending on the administration, they sometimes telegraph that they'd like to lighten up on the non-encrypting enabled software, but we've been unable to get an exception in writing from the government.
The problem is that we're not talking about some corporate fine or other such remedy, they attach personal criminal liability with jail time for violating this law, so we're not exactly incented to thumb our noses at the Government. Other hosting companies seem okay with it, and maybe they consider our reading of the rules too conservative, but that's how it is. If you are a US citizen, consider calling your congressperson or senator and ask for a rule change. Chris On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Bernd Kreuss <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com -- 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.
