From: Óscar F. <of...@wa...> - 2013-09-29 17:10:50
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Greg, Earnie, Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...> writes: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Greg Chicares wrote: >> On 2013-09-29 10:42Z, Óscar Fuentes wrote: >>> >>> [...] is SF applying restrictions on a >>> country-by-country base? >> >> Yes: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/ >> >> Mirrors in other countries need not apply any such >> restriction, so it's easily circumvented in practice. > > And you most likely could find a proxy that has a US IP on the outward > facing side. We have to mark our project for limited export because > of openssl which is required for openssh. MinGW targets users of all levels: from experts to complete novices. It is not realistic to expect from all of them the required knowledge for circumventing those limitations. Being MinGW a project which welcomes contributions from anyone regardless of their country, it is paramount to ensure that the result of those contributions are easily available for everyone. So the logical conclusion is to move hosting elsewhere (or at least clearly point to an alternative host with no such restrictions.) |