Re: Problem serving one-click installer to Syria

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "M(dot) Bashir Al-Noimi" <admin(at)mbnoimi(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Problem serving one-click installer to Syria
Date: 2010-06-16 06:38:11
Message-ID: 4C187153.3080507@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Speaking from having dealt with this at Sun: it's not just crypto code.
>> It's any goods at all, paid or not. EDB cannot remove their block.
>> Welcome to the Brave New World.
>
> Oh, that would make more sense. I've been reading the government info
> on registering crypto downloads, but that seems to be a requirement
> for any export, not just to embargoed countries, which didn't tally up
> with what I'm told the feds required of us.

well have you looked at the debian link I posted? - we should be able to
get a similiar setup going if we really need to.

>
>> The answer would be for the community to mirror the one-click installers
>> on a non-US server. This should, preferably, be done by community
>> members who neither work for EDB nor are Americans and without any
>> active cooperation from EDB.
>
> And would need to be on a server other than ftp.postgresql.org.

that should be doable I guess.

Stefan

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