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It looks like a JS frontend framework. I've never used it. I have no idea why it would be sanctioned. Bizarrely Aurelia 1.0 at https://github.com/aurelia/framew

It looks like a JS frontend framework. I've never used it. I have no idea why it would be sanctioned. Bizarrely Aurelia 1.0 at https://github.com/aurelia/framework https://github.com/aurelia/framework has a banner across its top indicating trade sanctions, but the new version Aurelia 2.0 doesn't https://github.com/aurelia/aurelia https://github.com/aurelia/aurelia. Aurelia's developers suspect it's because they have contributors from sanctioned countries. That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. https://twitter.com/AureliaEffect/status/1240664151753551873 https://twitter.com/AureliaEffect/status/1240664151753551873 EDIT: And the banner is gone... Just when I was going to save some screenshots.

save_ferris 7y ago
My first question is: how does Github know that certain committers are from sanctioned countries? Do they have Github profiles showing they're from sanctioned countries? Given the number of huge FOSS projects on Github, it's feasible to imagine that many major repos have code contributed by people from sanctioned countries. I have no idea what their motive is, but it smells really political to me. I could see Github's argument if they violated labor laws by hiring or contracting with individuals illegally, but that doesn't sound like what happened here.
- GordonS 7y ago
  > how does Github know that certain committers are from sanctioned countries? Do they have Github profiles showing they're from sanctioned countries? Even if not in their profiles, you can pretty reliably detect a user's country from their IP address.