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If it is posted from Iran how can it be under US export laws?



Once it's on Github, if it leaves the country it's hosted in, that's export.


If it goes through US servers to anyone outside the country, serving it would be exporting it.


Yes, but re-export is covered under a separate regime. Intellectual property served royalty free does not have a correspondent item in internal processing and re-export regime.




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