On 15/06/2010 07:58 ?, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
>
>>> Greg is entirely correct. We cannot export or facilitate the export of
>>> cryto code to embargoed countries, such as Syria due to US export
>>> laws. This doesn't just apply to EnterpriseDB of course, it applies to
>>> the community as well, either where our servers are in the US, or the
>>> people working on them are in the US. The penalties for ignoring this
>>> are *extremely* harsh.
>>>
>>>
>> I want to ask you a tiny question, do you agree with this policy? if yes
>> go ahead and forbid your projects but not others projects (my friend
>> from Spain be came crazy when I told him that I can access the SVN
>> because US blocked my IP).
>>
> To clarify, the source code can be downloaded from anywhere. It is only
> the one-click installer that embeds OpenSSL that is a problem.
>
> Technically the non-source code distributions of Postgres are produced
> by external groups. The community only distributes the source code,
> though we provide links to the external groups, and we are working with
> those groups to see if we can come up with a solution.
>
>
To be clear when I was using kubuntu I didn't face this issue because I
was free to download my files from many repositories all around the
world but when I tried to use pg on Windows the case changed thus I
faced blocking issue.
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Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi
My Blog: http://mbnoimi.net