On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Aaron Spike <spikeac@...836...> wrote:

On 2/8/2010 1:20 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
>
> let's unblock it!
>
>
> SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking

> <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1620238/SourceForge-Removes-Blanket-Blocking>

> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM
>

> Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/%7EScuttleMonkey/> on

> Monday February 08, @12:12PM
> from the power-to-the-people dept.

> government <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=government>

> Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (who shares a
> corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking
> users in certain countries

> <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1854241/SourceForge-Clarifies-Denial-of-Site-Access>

> to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end
> there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the

> users <http://ow.ly/14U1k>. /"Beginning now, every project admin can

> click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new
> section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more
> restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject
> to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now
> tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will
> be able to download your project files as they did before last month's

> change."/

If this cover's things like SSL Do we need to quit distributing python?

Aaron Spike