This is a very very weird world of encryption, ITAR, licenses, etc. The truth is there could be a lot of reasons. Another weird example: code.google.com was n

This is a very very weird world of encryption, ITAR, licenses, etc. The truth is there could be a lot of reasons. Another weird example: code.google.com was not available in 5 countries due to US state department controls. Github was. Github was basically ignoring explicit guidance (this is not a statement of intentionality. I'm pretty sure when they started they didn't know and it became a pain to be compliant). Google went and tried to get licenses (We eventually succeeded for most of them. At the same time, everyone ganged up together to try to convince state/etc to loosen up) In the meantime, people complained that github was available but code.google.com was not, when the reason was "one was following the law" :)