[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 18:19, Santiago A. <svaa at ciberpiula.net> 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.
>
>
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