[Lazarus] (no subject)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:32:08 +0200
> Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3-8-2012 21:16, Zaher Dirkey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please would you change and option in SourceForge project of Lazaus and
>>> FPC in Admin page, to this
>>> -----------------
>>> This project does NOT incorporate, access, call upon, or otherwise use
>>> encryption of any kind, including, but not limited to, open source
>>> algorithms and/or calls to encryption in the operating system or
>>> underlying platform.
>>> -----------------
>>>
>>> If it possible (i am not sure), to allow us download it in Syria and
>>> other country have belong to T7 <https://sourceforge.net/t7.php>
>> FPC contains at least native Blowfish encryption code, so that wouldn't
>> apply.
>>
>> No idea whether Lazarus "incorporates, accesses, calls upon" etc that...
>> but my guess is that it likely will.
> 
> Lazarus does not use the blowfish unit, but it ships fpc on its
> download pages.

Why is this relevant to a project which is predominantly European? If 
Sourceforge can't distribute it because of the laws under which they 
operate then we should look for an alternative.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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