Hello: 1) It is unfair, when people from other countries (even Cuba o Iran ) contributed, they thought that sourceforge would be available for everybody, now they have changed the deal unilaterally. Moreover, My contact in Cuba has helped in translating several projects into Spanish, now he can't enjoy his own work. It's not Sourceforge fault, but here we are. I won't ever contribute again in a project hosted only in Sourceforge.
2) It won't stop any government from using projects hosted in sourceforge, it's a public resource, so any government has a million ways to get the files. It's against citizens not against governments, as most embargoes. <irony>Wonderful Idea. To punish citizens because of their government.</irony> Anyhow, I don't think my contact in Cuba will ever download Lazarus again. He wasn't particularly interested in pascal before, he hadn't tested Lazarus in a year, he did it a year ago it just because I insisted a little. In fact, I am afraid he reported it to me just to denounce the facts. Forgetting policy and going back to the problem: As far as I know, you only use sourceforge to store files, you don't use any other service of SF (blogs, website, revision system etc), so it will be easy to upload them in other server. I sugest to create lazarus project in http://www.gna.org, that is in France, upload the binaries and sources tarball and add a link in lazarus website with the text "non-USA server" or something like that. PD: Counting on non-USA sourceforge's servers is a bad idea. Even if now they allows to access from "rogue countries", this may change in a near future. Sourceforge belongs to a USA company. Regards Santiago A. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
