[Gfoss] SourceForge si adatta alle leggi USA

[Stefano Costa]

http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/


> Since 2003, the SourceForge.net Terms and Conditions of Use have
> prohibited certain persons from receiving services pursuant to U.S.
> laws, including, without limitations, the Denied Persons List and
> the Entity List, andother lists issued by the U.S. Department of
> Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. The specific list of
> sanctions that affect our users concern the transfer and export of
> certain technology to foreign persons and governments on the sanctions
> list. This means users residing in countries on the United States
> Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanction list, including Cuba,
> Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, may not post content to, or
> access content available through, SourceForge.net. Last week,
> SourceForge.net began automatic blocking of certain IP addresses to
> enforce those conditions of use.

Google Code già da anni segue la legge USA a questo riguardo (e non si
capisce bene perché sia stato salutato con grande giubilo il recente
"rifiuto" di collaborare alla censura cinese).

Come dire: le licenze libere aiutano, ma non bastano. Mi domando se
tecnicamente SourceForge non stia (come minimo) violando la licenza di
tutto il codice sotto GNU GPL, in riferimento all'articolo 12 (v3) o 7
(v2).

Ciao,
steko


P.S. no, non è off-topic

-- 
Stefano Costa
http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology
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