Violating sanctions is definitely a concern as your company gets bigger. See: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/startups-have-to-care-about..., and github restricting access for people from iran, syria, and crimea.

But the maintainer is from Tehran. Did we just out someone violating the GH TOS?

> If there were a vibrant industrial or creative community in North Korea to interact with, I’d see the light in this argument. But there isn’t.

This is entirely false. For example, North Korea has, believe it or not, a booming software development outsourcing industry (mostly apps I think). Their labor is dirt cheap and they're apparently not half bad at what they do.

I believe the same goes for any other type of labor: If you're willing to violate trade sanctions, you can get anything from there for a penny.

or Iran...