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Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.

Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So why were they blocked?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've switched to CalyxOS 6 or 7 months ago, OrganicMaps came with it. I have never looked back.

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