From: Stefano S. <ste...@po...> - 2010-06-15 09:24:24
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On date Tuesday 2010-06-15 11:55:41 +0300, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Volker Grabsch <vo...@no...>wrote: > > > M. Bashir Al-Noimi <ad...@mb...> schrieb: > > > Lately sf.net forbids many open source projects although most these > > projects > > > are not owned by sourceforge, so I(we) suffer a lot because of their > > racism > > > policy (They said they've to apply the law but this isn't full truth) so > > I > > > encourage MinGW admin to migrate this project from sf.net to another > > open > > > source hosting which real free, real applying FOSS principles, or at > > least > > > allow me(us) to download MinGW by activating related tick from MinGW > > admin > > > webpage... > > > > I propose to switch to Savannah or Gna! which are hosted by the FSF resp. > > FSF France, so it is guaranteed they fully adhere to the principles of > > Free Software. > > > > My Mingw-cross-env project [1] is hosted on Savannah, which I can highly > > recommend. There was some small initial trouble, but since then everything > > was running flawlessly. > > > > BerliOS <http://developer.berlios.de/> is a clone from sf.net because it > uses same applications with same structure. and there is > Launchpad<https://launchpad.net/>it's very easy but it's using bzr > instead of SVN/CVS > > Personally I prefer to test BerliOS <http://developer.berlios.de/> because > migration process will not take more than 1 day, then you can make MinGW > project at sf.net works as a mirror from BerliOS<http://developer.berlios.de/> That would be also a good pretest to make MinGW switch to some more modern SCCS ;-). And I agree, FLOSS projects should strive hard to be available to every people with no national / geographic discrimination, making this depends on US laws doesn't guarantee that this goal can be effectively achieved. Regards. |