After just a few weeks, SourceForge has backed off its policy of imposing a blanket ban on all users trying to access the site from countries on the U.S. “banned” list. Instead, it announced on Sunday that it’s putting the decision in the hands of each project that hosts on the site.
According to SourceForge’s Lee Schlesinger, the company has no way of knowing which projects should or shouldn’t trigger a block. So it will leave that up to the individuals running the project:
