Maybe we could just provide some direct links to Sourceforge mirrors outside the US? Like this one in Brazil: http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/lazarus/
Best regards, Flávio On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:46:39 -0500 > svaa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> Because of USA policy, Sourceforge has blocked users from Cuba, Iran >> North Corea and other "rogue countries". >> http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/ > Sourceforge needs some non US server now! > It's a silly law and Sourceforge needs to find a way round it. > >>I don't intend to start a flame about USA's foreign policy. But perhaps >>you could think an alternative. Not necessarily to move away from >>Sourceforge, but maybe to have a mirror in an alternative repository >>without such restrictions and link it in Lazarus' site > Use http://repo.or.cz/ as a mirror it has a nice web gui for git and it's not > in the US or US owned. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
