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Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. (programming.dev)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gamer@lemm.ee 38 points 3 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?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Ushmel@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's weird. Russians and Americans aren't sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

They got unbanned, but it eroded trust that it won't happen again

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ironically the US is more likely to drop the sanctions before Germany, where Codeberg is based.

Edit: They've gone self hosted. That makes more sense.