[Lazarus] Unable to install components

[Osvaldo Filho]

Vincent Snijders schrieb:

>> SourceForge seem to have changed the policy regarding the block - 
>> perhaps the Free Pascal project and Lazarus should look into these 
>> changes:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/ 
> 
> 
> I am not sure that FPC and therefore Lazarus (we offer FPC packages in 
> and with Lazarus packages and installers) is not subject to US export 
> regulation, if exported from some US SourceForge server.

The export is disallowed by international contracts, i.e. not only US 
servers are affected. But only the export of strong encryption code is 
regulated, no other software is affected.

So somebody should reset the "export" flag for Lazarus (and FPC) on SF. 
Other servers may follow...

DoDi