Blocking access from certain countries

Question

I noticed that SourceForge and Google code both are blocking access tothe platforms for people from a number of countries (Iran, Syria, Cuba,...).

As far as I understood, Savannah is also US-based. Is there the dangerthat Savannah will also block access from these countries?

Answer

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

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

Note: SourceForge softened their policy a bit:https://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/

The country-based restrictions are in place by default, but you can turnthem off in the sf web pages, under: Develop -> Project Admin ->Project Settings -> Export Control.

We don't know about Google Code.