[Barrin92]

>"innovative new open source projects" which should be doable from anywhere

not if you're an Iranian developer and shut out due to US sanctions, which someone like the Eclipse foundation would have to comply with if they were still located in the US.

A year or so ago Github had to shut out Iranian, Syrian and Crimean developers for example.

[jkingsbery]

Interesting, I hadn't thought about that.

My (limited) understanding is that US regulations are that firms that aid the government of Iran also are subject to sanction. If the move to Europe was primarily about allowing developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea to contribute, is there any threat to Eclipse's relationship with US developers?