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SourceForge Removes "Blanket" Block

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/8/2010
After just a few weeks, SourceForge has backed off its policy of imposing a blanket ban on all users trying to access the site from countries on the U.S. "banned" list. Instead, it announced on Sunday that it's putting the decision in the hands of each project that hosts on the site. According to SourceForge's Lee [...]
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Legal silliness: Blocking banned countries

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/26/2010
Some days it seems nothing is simple, even providing open access to open source software. There's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing over SourceForge blocking "banned locations" from downloading software. The long and short of it seems to be that SourceForge is filtering access to downloads. Requests from Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are [...]
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