Nothing to be done about it until the US changes the law. Relocating the servers doesn't change anything.
Sorry. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Hugo Florentino <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > As far as I can see, most (maybe all) of the projects in > code.google.com are open source. With different licenses, that's true, > but still most/all of these licenses at least grants the permission to > study the code. > > However, access to code.google.com apparently is denied to some > countries, like Cuba, for example. Isn't it contradictory to provide a > repository for open source projects and then denying access to whole > countries, regardless of the privileges that licenses grant? > > If the problem is that the servers are in US soil, or that since > Google is from USA it cannot provide this service to blacklisted > countries, wouldn't at least it be possible to offer an option to make > a mirror in servers located elsewhere where US government cannot > impose restricting access, like maybe http://ftp.heanet.ie ? > > I look forward to your replies. > > Best regards, Hugo > > -- > 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. > > -- Director of Open Source, Google Inc. Our open source and developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Site, Bio, Pics: http://dibona.com Google Plus: http://goo.gl/MRK6aTwitter: @cdibona -- 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.
