Re: Problem serving one-click installer to Syria

On 15/06/2010 07:58 م, 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
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