Clarifying SourceForge.net’s denial of site access for certain persons 
in accordance with US law
http://ow.ly/10fVL

On 1/25/2010 10:35 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello Reynier,
>
> I wasn't aware that Source Forge prohibited Open Source software from being
> distributed in a number of countries such as yours.   It suprises me and in
> my opinion is not a good thing, but then Source Forge is a US entity and so
> they have no choice.
>
> Since Bacula is developed in Switzerland, we do not have such export
> restrictions.  However, that said, eventhough we are not directly subject to
> US export laws, we would like to avoid any potential problems with the US
> government, so I would hesitate to setup another server.
>
> However, you might want to know that very often we load the Bacula release
> files onto http://www.bacula.org/downloads so that people can test them and
> developers can share the final versions before they are posted on Source
> Forge.  If you look there, you will probably find what you want, but we
> cannot guarantee how long they will remain (normally they are only removed
> when the next version is released).
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
>
> On Monday 25 January 2010 15:21:08 ReynierPm wrote:
>    
>> On 1/25/2010 7:17 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello Kern and others:
>> This are great news for Bacula community. I want to update/upgrade my
>> Bacula to this release but due to Terms of Use from SourceForge
>> (http://p.sf.net/sourceforge/terms#ProhibitedPersons) my country, Cuba,
>> can't download anything from SF. Could any help me hosting Bacula files
>> on any other server just for download?
>>      
>
>
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