[Lazarus] Sourceforge and Cuba

Jonathan winelauncher.jonathan at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 31 21:45:31 CET 2010


On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:46:39 -0500
svaa <svaa at ciberpiula.net> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> Because of USA policy, Sourceforge  has blocked users from Cuba, Iran
> North Corea and other "rogue countries".
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
Sourceforge needs some non US server now!
It's a silly law and Sourceforge needs to find a way round it.

>I don't intend to start a flame about USA's foreign policy. But perhaps
>you could think an alternative. Not necessarily to move away from
>Sourceforge, but maybe to have a mirror in an alternative repository
>without such restrictions and link it in Lazarus' site
Use http://repo.or.cz/ as a mirror it has a nice web gui for git and it's not in the US or US owned.




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