On 10/06/10 14:32, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
I believe the US
government put pressure on sourceforge.net to adhere to export restrictions
even if the developer is from outside of the US.  Could it be that the same
happened to FreeBSD and that's why the license change?


IIRC, sourceforge was required by some US agency to block IPs from various countries or else remove the given projects from the site. It boiled down to "We don't want to do this, but we have to, unless we want to locate our servers on non-US soil."

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