Re: [Savannah-users] Blocking "axis of evil"

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I talked about it recently at FOSDEM and LSM, and our answer is that
we do not block people based on their country.

In addition, the FSF investigated the legal issue and the conclusion
is that US law does not require blocking connections from anywhere.

Note: last time I heard of it, SF changed their policy a bit:
http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/
Project admins need to manually disable the country-based blocking.
I don't know about gcode.

- Sylvain

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:07:25AM +0200, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:37:59AM +0200, Olaf Lenz wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I'm opening a can of worms, but still.
> > 
> > When looking for a platform to host our scientific simulation
> > software ESPResSo, I noticed that SourceForge and Google code both
> > are blocking access to the platforms for people from a number of
> > countries (Iran, Syria, Cuba, ...).
> > 
> > As far as I understood, Savannah is also US-based. Is there the
> > danger that Savannah will also block access from these countries?
> 
> Well, I don't know about Savannah itself, but at least the download area
> is mirrored in different countries worldwide.
> I think I have heard that Savannah also had a fallback solution in Europe,
> but I'm not sure about that. I just know fairly sure that the FSF wouldn't
> like to be forced to restrict specific countries, whatever they are.
> 
> If you are looking for a very similar hosting site in Europe, have a look
> at Gna!, which is located in France.
> https://gna.org/