Recent GitHub developers began to limit subject to US trade sanctions against countries news caused great shock in the developer area. To this end GitHub respond to sudden outages: involuntarily, not entitled to notice early warning in advance . Today Github official hosting platform rules associated with the US Trade Control released a detailed explanation .
The following are the details of the rules:
GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server and you've uploaded to Github any one product may be subject to trade control laws, including the US Administration Regulations (EAR) export.
GitHub's vision is to become a global developer collaboration platform. Our comprehensive inspection authorization serious and responsible government to ensure that the impact of users and customers are not required by law. This includes maintaining a common repository services (including services for open source projects) available and accessible to support personal communications involving a sanctioned area developers.
To comply with US trade control laws, GitHub service approach recently made some necessary changes. With the development of US trade control laws, we will continue to cooperate with US regulators to discuss in order to understand the code we can provide free services for the collaboration of developers in the market subject to sanctions extent. We believe that providing these free services to support US foreign policy to encourage the free flow of information and freedom of expression in these markets.
In order for users to understand, we will next be described in detail the issue of Github.com and Github Enterprise Server in regulatory processing to ensure that you understand the use GitHub products and services comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including US export control laws .
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GitHub.com
According to our terms of service , users can access and use in accordance with applicable laws GitHub.com, including US export control and sanctions laws.
用户有责任确保他们在GitHub.com上开发和共享的内容符合美国出口管制法律，包括EAR和美国国际武器贸易条例（ITAR）。 Github.com上提供的云托管服务产品并非旨在托管受ITAR约束的数据，目前不提供按国家/地区限制存储库访问的功能。如果您希望就ITAR或其他出口控制数据进行协作，我们建议您考虑使用GitHub的本地产品GitHub Enterprise Server。
美国的贸易管制法律限制了某些国家和地区的用户使用 GitHub.com 服务。根据美国财政部外国资产控制办公室（OFAC）颁发的授权，GitHub 可允许受到美国制裁的国家和地区的用户使用某些免费 GitHub.com 服务，禁止的范围包括通过使用位于这些受限国家与地址的 IP 代理、VPN 以及其他伪装方式。
根据美国和其他适用法律，特别指定国民（SDN）和其他被拒绝或被封锁的人士禁止访问或使用 GitHub.com。此外，其他用户不得代表此类方（包括受制裁国家/地区的政府）使用 GitHub.com。此外，GitHub.com 不得用于适用出口管制法律禁止的目的，包括 17 CFR 744 中描述的禁止最终用途。
GitHub Enterprise Server
GitHub Enterprise Server 是一个自托管的软件产品，它可以运行在您自己的数据中心或虚拟私有云。 因此，GitHub Enterprise Server 可用于存储 ITAR 或其他出口控制信息，但最终用户仍需负责确保符合 ITAR 和其他适用的出口控制。
GitHub Enterprise Server 是一种商业软件产品，已被分配了 5D992.c 的出口控制分类号（ECCN），可能无需许可证（NLR）即可出口到大多数目的地。
GitHub Enterprise Server 不得出售，出口或再出口到 EAR 第740部分补充文件或乌克兰克里米亚地区的国家组 E:1 中列出的任何国家。 该清单目前包含古巴，伊朗，朝鲜和叙利亚，但可能会有所变化。
常见问题
1. 美国政府制裁适用于哪些国家和地区？
克里米亚，古巴，伊朗，朝鲜和叙利亚。
2. 在这些地区的旅行期间使用 Github 会受到影响吗？
在这些地区旅行可能会影响您的帐户状态，但在提交成功的申诉请求后，一旦您在受制裁的国家或地区之外，可以恢复可用性。
3. 什么是可用的，不可用的？
美国受制裁国家和地区的可用性将受到限制，但某些GitHub服务可能适用于免费的个人和免费组织GitHub.com帐户。这包括对GitHub公共存储库服务的有限访问（例如访问GitHub页面和用于开源项目的公共存储库），仅用于个人用途，而不用于商业目的。该限制还包括对私有存储库服务和付费服务的暂停访问（例如私有组织帐户和GitHub Marketplace服务的可用性）。
4. 贸易限制用户的私人存储库是否可以公开？
存储库管理员可以将受限制的私有存储库公开，仅用于个人用途，而不用于商业目的。所有者可以通过在存储库设置选项卡并单击“公开”按钮来完成此操作。存储库公开后，用户可以访问公共存储库服务。此操作无法撤消。
5. 贸易限制用户可以访问私人存储库数据（例如下载或删除存储库数据）吗？
遗憾的是，在美国政府另行授权之前，我们对法律的理解并未允许我们允许下载或删除私人存储库内容。我们将与美国监管机构一起强烈主张限制贸易的用户有权保护其私人存储库的内容。我们还将倡导为受制裁市场的开发人员提供更多GitHub服务，并进一步强调代码协作在支持全球开发人员个人通信方面的重要性。
6. How do you define these specific users?
GitHub determine if users or customers in an area subject to US trade controls or limitations, or the user is limited by US economic sanctions, the subsidiary accounts must comply with these legal requirements. The implementation of these legal restrictions determine the location of users and customers from a number of sources, including IP address, and payment history. Nationality and ethnic sanctions limit mark for the user.
7. GitHub how to ensure that no living in and / or with the person sanctioned countries and regions have professional contacts still have the right to appeal?
In rare cases, the account will inadvertently or wrong, we will have a process to deal with these instances of appeal.
If you think they are marked as an error, the user has the opportunity to appeal the mark by providing authentication information to GitHub. If GitHub receive enough information to prove that the user is not a resident of the territory sanctions or restricted US economic sanctions, then the flag will be deleted. See the appeal application .