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MSEide+MSEgui SourceForge -> BerliOS

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Rainer Stratmann
to Zaher Dirkey: Can i ask What is your country? And sorry for Off Topic Zaher Dirkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland

Zaher Dirkey wrote 15 lines
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 14:11:03 Anthony Walter wrote: > > I don't understand. Would you care to explain what restrictions > > SourceForge places on its users? I am curious. > > Please read: > > http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-acc >ess-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/ > > Martin Can i ask What is your country? And sorry for Off Topic

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Nikolay Nikolov
to Martin Schreiber: Please read: http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-…
Martin Schreiber wrote 5 lines

Good news, they have added the option to lift those restrictions. It's now up to the project admins to decide for their own project. http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Nikolay Nikolov: Good news, they have added the option to lift those restrictions. It's now up to the…
Nikolay Nikolov wrote
> Good news, they have added the option to lift those restrictions. It's now up to the project admins to decide for their own project.

Problem still holds. If you accidentally on unknowingly introduce "code of mass destruction" <smile>, or the US Government things your code is considered "rogue" they will try and jump on your case. :-( Simple things like cryptography units is an issue.

Having this hanging over your head is not what I call "in the spirit of the open internet". So what Martin did, by moving his project to BerliOS is a good move.

I'm considering my options too (self hosting or external non-US hosting), and moving my project away from SourceForge.net. Even though my country is not affected by this, this whole idea of banning countries is ridiculous.

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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Martin Schreiber
to Nikolay Nikolov: Good news, they have added the option to lift those restrictions. It's now up to the…
Nikolay Nikolov wrote
Good news, they have added the option to lift those restrictions. It's now up to the project admins to decide for their own project. http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-bloc king

And now one risks that the US government sues the admins of the projects if we click the wrong "Export Controls" option? Much too dangerous. I export "prohibited technology" from USA to banned countries which falls under US law. And US government has the possibilities to enforce their will in my country. We will stick to BerliOS.

Martin

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