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If you work for an American company, get a bug report from a user you know to be in Iran against an open source project you work on during company time and fix
by avar 8y ago
If you work for an American company, get a bug report from a user you know to be in Iran against an open source project you work on during company time and fix it as a result, can the company be considered to be engaging in commerce with Iran?
- InGodsName 8y agoDirect exchange of value has to take place. In this case no, because fixing that bug in your project doesn't benefit him specifically.
- tremon 8y agoBut direct exchange goes two ways. Fixing a bug in your project does benefit the project specifically.
- kaitai 8y agoBut that's one reason dumping the account of a PhD student in Canada is puzzling -- there is no evidence of exchange of value. I suppose the argument is that the person in question visited Iran and presumably had to pay for food at some point and thus "did business with Iran" -- and that would cover the American vacationing in Cuba as well. And that's probably why they're not just banning IPs originating in the small set of sanctioned countries, and instead dropping users. But I don't like it.
- kkarakk 8y agoSourceforge actively DID block interaction with countries under sanction by the US. even though they're garbage malware distributers now it is a data point https://www.computerworld.com/article/2467444/open-source-tools/should-open-source-repositories-block-nations-under-u-s--sanctions-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2467444/open-source-to...
- skrebbel 8y agoThey're not garbage malware distributors anymore.
- jessaustin 8y agoOnce you @#$& a goat, you're always a goat-@#$&-er?
- kkarakk 8y agoin our minds and hearts
- mort96 8y agoThey're still garbage malware distributors in the hearts and minds of most people. People don't just forget the atrocities associated with the sourceforge name. I know I'm not going to trust them any time soon.