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主题:【文摘】从谷哥事件、希拉里网络外交到ACTA谈判 -- 我爱莫扎特
这是文汇报驻法国记者郑若麟博客上的一篇最新文章。河友们有谁对这个ACTA有所了解的么?
http://zhengruolinparis.blog.sohu.com/143019730.html
法国今天部分网络报道了美国国务卿克林顿和中国就网络自由问题的交锋。令人颇为意外的是,法国网民显然更为关注“ACTA”的秘密谈判!当网络世界的这两件事件同时出现的时候,其话外音是再明确不过了……
趁大胖子没来
SourceForge的声明: Clarifying SourceForge.net’s denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law
http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 by leeschlesinger
If you follow sourceforge on Twitter, you may have seen some tweets last week from certain users outside the US complaining that they no longer had access to SourceForge.net. Here's why.
Since 2003, the SourceForge.net Terms and Conditions of Use have prohibited certain persons from receiving services pursuant to U.S. laws, including, without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. The specific list of sanctions that affect our users concern the transfer and export of certain technology to foreign persons and governments on the sanctions list. This means users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, may not post content to, or access content available through, SourceForge.net. Last week, SourceForge.net began automatic blocking of certain IP addresses to enforce those conditions of use.
As one of the first companies to promote the adoption and distribution of free and open source software, and one that still puts open source at the center of its corporate ideals, restrictions on the free flow of information rub us the wrong way. However, in addition to participating in the open source community, we also live in the real world, and are governed by the laws of the country in which we are located. Our need to follow those laws supersedes any wishes we might have to make our community as inclusive as possible. The possible penalties for violating these restrictions include fines and imprisonment. Other hosting companies based in the US have similar legal and technical restrictions in place.
We regret deeply that these sanctions may impact individuals who have no malicious intent along with those whom the rules are designed to punish. However, until either the designated governments alter the practices that got them on the sanctions list, or the US government's policies change, the situation must remain as it is.
SourceForge已经屏蔽了所有来自美国“投资制裁国家名单”中的国家:包括伊朗,朝鲜,叙利亚,苏丹和古巴。此举无疑会引起开放源代码阵营,以及GNU的十字军战士如Stallman先生的强烈不满。这并不是故事的开始,早在2008年在这些国家也只允许浏览SourceForge,不能与代码库进行接触---不能下载,也不能贡献代码。现在终于圆满 了,如果你居住在伊朗,朝鲜,叙利亚,苏丹或者古巴,你压根就不能访问了。
按照OSI(开放源码协会)的定义:
5. 不能歧视任何人或者群体
许可证必须不能歧视任何人或者群体。
6. 不能歧视任何领域的贡献者
许可证必须不能限制任何人在特定领域对程序的使用,比如说,不能限制程序不能应用于商业,或者不能用于一般性的研究。
在今天,开源精神遭到了践踏,SourceForge会因为他们被要求屏蔽流氓国家而去美国国会抗议么?
这是个棘手的问题,难道仅仅因为这几个国家的极少数的一部分人的极端行为,就要整个国家遭到惩罚么?开源软件为这些受到压迫和发展中的国家提供了重要的基础设施。希望美国政府能够看到对这些国家基础设施和羽翼未丰的产业带来的打击。
http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/102916.htm
ubuntuforums.org上面的评论
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1388148
But... but... but... How can this be?!?! Why, just recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been calling for an uncensored Internet. Another case of "do what we say, not what we do?"
Sometimes my own country embarrasses the hell out of me .
Jim
Location: S.E. Michigan, U.S.A.
Typical USGov't reaction. We have a big problem in Washington, it's called "idiocy".
Dave
Location: Albuquerque, NM
"The State Department has $5 million available in funds appropriated by Congress last year for organizations that promote technologies to get around firewalls," - maybe one should ask get some money to provide tools to circumvent access restrictions caused by US law.
This "censorship is evil - except if we do it" attitude isn't uniq to the US. We have it here in Germany too.
diesch
Location: Freiburg/Germany