[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

[Santiago A.]

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.