2008/6/24 Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:01:17PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote: >> Just as a side note: Google has been overly submissive to US Export >> Regulations and rejects requests from IPs that can be traced to a location >> within an country that falls under their export ban list. Unfortunately the >> same applies to SourceForge. >> Thus publishing your project through Google Code or SourceForge effectively >> prevents interested folks from joining the project if they are citizen of a >> nation that falls under the US Export Regulations. This also applies to >> people only visiting such countries. > > Is there some other easy option here? Hosting your own is fscking > painful, OSGeo doesn't offer hosting for small projects like this, and I > expect anyone else who is big enough to make solving this problem easy > likely isn't in a position to be much more open/unrestricted, because > they're governed by the same laws. > > It seems to me like an option is just to make the code available on > google code, and also republish it in another easily-googled place. > Then, if it becomes an issue that is blocking contributors, put the > effort into doing something about it -- setting up an SVN mirror, or > something similar, to allow those users to contribute. > > In general, OpenLayers has not seen major contributions from > technology export-embargoed countries. (Our server doesn't have > technical restrictions blocking export to these countries.) Although it > is a concern -- and certainly, it's unfortunate because it is a vicious > cycle where contributors are typically blocked, so they don't even > bother kind of thing -- I think that the relative importance of this > to, say, a website being down an hour a week or something like that is > relatively low (and if you're maintaining it yourself, you'll always > have downtime when things break). > > Regards,
I'm right now moving from GoogleCode (the export laws, you know) to JavaHispano[0] with some problems but enough by far for my necessities. There is also gna![1], and SEXTANTE[2] has moved to OSOR[3] a new forge for european public administration free software projects. I tested some time ago the knowledgeforge[4] but it didn't worked really well :S Cheers [0]http://javahispano.net [1]https://gna.org/ [2]http://sextantegis.com/en/index.htm [3]https://forge.osor.eu/projects/sextante/ [4]http://www.knowledgeforge.net/ -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://www.geomaticblog.net http://www.prodevelop.es _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss