As the GitLab CEO I want to congratulate Nat and GitHub in obtaining this license. This is great news for the people of Iran, GitHub, open source, and the software industry. Thank you. I imagine obtaining this license took a consistent effort from the company. GitHub and in particular Nat truly care about open source.
As an Iranian interested in opensource and free software, I thank you for Gitlab.
It is devastating that this was a thing to begin with. But I'm happy that at least we can pull/push again!
Happy coding.
Edit: I misread the OP. But the message is still the same, thank you for Gitlab.
Sid, when can we expect the same thing happen at GitLab?
PS: I'm trailing the comments and it is very interesting to see how this post is turned into a competition about GitLab vs. GitHub vs. BitBucket. But fellas, this is not about tech, it's about the people who use it. In particular about a thriving community of talented and young developers who have been ignored, sanctioned, and betrayed over and over both domestically and internationally.
GitLab is looking into whether we may be able to obtain a similar license.
PS: I agree this post should be about GitHub and what they achieved for the thriving community of developers in Iran who are making things work despite their circumstances.
Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China.
Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content removed from GitHub issue a lawful request to us, which we then push to a public repo:
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
So you are able to see all of the government takedown requests that we have processed, there. You'll notice that there are only 3 directories in that repo: Russia, China, and Spain. When we do (reluctantly) take down content at the request of a government, we try to limit the takedown only to viewers in the country that made the request, rather than doing a global takedown.
