Hi list, Well, I've got to say upfront that we WERE warned about the dangers of this happening by members of our community, and now the worst IS happening and Github has started blocking access to projects from certain regions.
See https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/86154.html, but long story short, GitHub is now blocking users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria from accessing its services to comply with U.S. trade control laws. I'm unsure if we're directly affected yet by this, but the wording on Github's notice is very vague: " GitHub MAY allow users in or ordinarily resident in countries and territories subject to U.S. sanctions to access CERTAIN free GitHub.com services for PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS " (emphasis added by me). What can/should we do in response to this? Note that it ALSO applies to gitlab.com, who are also subject to the same trade laws, so moving to gitlab ISN'T a possible solution (unless we self-host). I think at the least we could/should endorse an official, read-only repo mirror which isn't affected by the trade laws, e.g. https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/qgis/QGIS would be a great candidate (unless osgeo is also affected by the same ruling, which they could easily be, given that they are US based too) . An official mirror would at least ensure that users in these regions can access the existing source. Does this development concern anyone else? Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
