<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Legally you cannot use OSM services from the territories which are targets for sanctions from the United Kingdom, Crimea included:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#III._Unlawful_and_other_unauthorized_uses" class="">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#III._Unlawful_and_other_unauthorized_uses</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe that also includes being a part of the Foundation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ilya<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Nov 2018, at 13:13, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <<a href="mailto:me@komzpa.net" class="">me@komzpa.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sanctions: do they apply to OSMF membership too?<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Can it happen that someone from Russia (or Crimea) can't really legally join OSMF because of some kind of British restrictions?</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 1:02 PM Paul Norman <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" class="">penorman@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2018-11-16 1:01 AM, Rory McCann wrote:<br class="">
><br class="">
> Thanks Paul.<br class="">
><br class="">
> One question: The country list on that page, and the linked PayPal<br class="">
> page[1], refers to "Western Balkans", which isn't a country.<br class="">
><br class="">
> Wikipedia[2] says "Western Balkans is a neologism coined to refer to<br class="">
> Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia less Slovenia". But<br class="">
> that includes Croatia, which is a member of the European Union! I<br class="">
> thought we were in a single market! Depending on your political<br class="">
> orientation, I've traveled (twice) in all, or nearly all, of those<br class="">
> countries, and 1 or 2 of those countries use the Euro. I don't remember<br class="">
> having a problem using my credit or debit card.<br class="">
><br class="">
> I'm not really opposed to granting everyone from there free membership<br class="">
> to the OSMF. Would it not be more respectful to list the country names<br class="">
> individually rather than lump them into one geographic neolingualism? <br class="">
<br class="">
We've taken the list from PayPal, which has in turn taken it from <br class="">
sanctions. We'll have to find out what that means exactly. I suspect <br class="">
this is one of those cases where someone impacted by the sanctions will <br class="">
be very aware of it. If someone has expertise in what countries are <br class="">
embargoed from PayPal, please contact the MWG. We had to figure out the <br class="">
list from research.<br class="">
<br class="">
We haven't formally set the priority for the next work, but my view is <br class="">
that aside from extending the program for financial need, we'll be <br class="">
spending time on adding countries to the list where the transfer costs <br class="">
are excessive, and learning more about sanctions and embargos.<br class="">
<br class="">
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