The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05489v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:11:11 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
• Authors: Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula,
• Abstract summary: GitHub has fueled the creation of truly global software. As software becomes more entwined with global politics and social regulations, it becomes similarly subject to government sanctions. In 2019, GitHub restricted access to certain services for users in specific locations but rolled back these restrictions for some communities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes more entwined with global politics and social regulations, it becomes similarly subject to government sanctions. In 2019, GitHub restricted access to certain services for users in specific locations but rolled back these restrictions for some communities (e.g., the Iranian community) in 2021. We conducted a large-scale empirical study, collecting approximately 156 thousand user profiles and their 41 million activity points from 2008 to 2022, to understand the response of developers. Our results indicate that many of these targeted developers were able to navigate through the sanctions. Furthermore, once these sanctions were lifted, these developers opted to return to GitHub instead of withdrawing their contributions to the platform. The study indicates that platforms like GitHub play key roles in sustaining global contributions to Open Source Software.

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