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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 18:19, Santiago A. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > You can always use public proxy or anonymizers for having different IP addresses. Even if you are not a government. > 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 > Ido
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