Of course I do. What I wanted to make sure was that the maintainers and the community know this, and are OK with that. LilyPond is a GNU project after all, and I don't think this is a GNU policy at all, since no other GNU project that I know of does this.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 7:01 PM Remy CLAVERIE <[email protected]> wrote: > Omid, > > You should consider using a VPN, I think. > > Good luck > > Rémy > > > > > > > > > > > Message du 02/11/21 16:14 > > De : "Omid Mo'menzadeh" <[email protected]> > > A : "Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> > > Copie à : "lilypond-user" <[email protected]> > > Objet : Re: LilyPond website is not available in some countries > > > > > Well, that's good news, since it would make fixing the problem a lot > easier. Here is my output from "ping lilypond.org", which definitely is > trying to get something from Google: > > PING lilypond.org (35.206.114.173) 56(84) bytes of data. > > 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): > icmp_seq=1 ttl=99 time=312 ms > > 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): > icmp_seq=2 ttl=96 time=279 ms > > 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): > icmp_seq=3 ttl=99 time=339 ms > > 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): > icmp_seq=4 ttl=96 time=310 ms > > 64 bytes from 173.114.206.35.bc.googleusercontent.com (35.206.114.173): > icmp_seq=5 ttl=96 time=311 ms > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Phil Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 02/11/2021 12:53, Kevin Cole wrote: >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:42 AM Omid Mo'menzadeh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >>> Hello all. >>> > >>> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this, but I'll give it a >>> shot here, and see where I should report this. >>> The problem seems to be the website's hosting, which appears to be >>> provided by Google, which blocks access from certain countries in >>> accordance with US law (with the error message "403. That’s an error. Your >>> client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. That’s all >>> we know."). This would not surprise me if LilyPond was not a GNU project, >>> but it's a bit off at the moment, to say the least. >>> What I would want to know if this is something the team cares about, and >>> where I should discuss this. >>> Thanks, >>> Omid Momenzadeh >>> > >>> >> I could be mistaken -- I often am -- but... >> >> I suspect it's merely that the site is designed to construct search >> queries using Google as the default search engine -- along with Google's >> option to limit the search to a particular site. This saves the maintainers >> from having to install a search engine and keep it updated. >> > >> > >> (One other negative consequence of this setup is that it randomly chooses >> the version of documentation -- e.g. If I am on a .../doc/v2.20/... page >> and search for a term, it will happily offer up a match from >> .../doc/v2.22/..., .../doc/2.18/... or whatever else it finds.) >> >> > >> >> > No - it's hosted on Google currently. >> >> > -- >> >> > Phil Holmes >> > >> >
