Hey Nyall, >From my understanding, it is only private repos (which we have none) and nothing open source and the public which means it really shouldn't affect us in any way.
Providing a mirror isn't a bad thing anyway, but I don't think this move affects us really here. A lot of places have networks blocking access to stuff like GitHub anyway so might not be bad to have a mirror to help those people. - Nathan On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:26 PM Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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