On Tuesday 26 January 2010 21:51:32 Peter Allgeyer wrote: > Hi Kern! > > Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Kern Sibbald: > > 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. > > Ok, they don't have, but there are alternatives and we should take a > look at them - my opinion, of course.
We have already done that several times. > > > 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. > > So, if Bacula is developed in Switzerland, why not using Origo to > distribute the software? More here: http://www.origo.ethz.ch/ Thanks for your suggestion, but frome what I see, Origo provides software, not a hosting platform. I have quite a number of problems with Source Forge, so have looked at numerous other alternatives for hosting Bacula source distibution. To date, none of them provides all the features that we currently use on Source Forge, and hosting it ourselves is not an alternative because it requires too much of our time. Unless someone can come up with a good solution that addresses all the faults with Source Forge and provides all the features we currently use, we are not interested in doing the investigation ourselves (already done several times). To make it clear, we do not need software to distribute the project, we could do so from the bacula.org server. We need a source code hosting site that handles all the administrative aspects of a project for us as Source Forge currently does. Best regards, Kern > > Best Regards, > Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
