about sourceForge

[Alex Vergara Gil]

dear developers
I will only mention this fact so you can decide if you agree or not

taked from: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-new-site-notepad-plus-plus.org.html
Since January 2010, SourceForge has complied with US law to deny site access from 5 countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria).

This action is totally absurd - not mentioning to that Notepad++ project is far from a part of US property (like all the hosted FOSS projects in SF), the fact that a FOSS hoster rejects the access from some population is not only a discrimination action but also a violation of fundamental FOSS principle.

We refuse to apply US government's vision, so that's our first move: the new site under domain name NOTEPAD-PLUS-PLUS.ORG is hosted by tuxfamily.org in a neutral territory (France).



Now replace Notepad++ with LyX or any other FOSS and you will get my point.

Regards

Alex Vergara

Resident in Cuba

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Post by Alex Vergara Gil
dear developers
I will only mention this fact so you can decide if you agree or not
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-new-site-notepad-plus-plus.org.html
Since January 2010, SourceForge has complied with US law to deny
site access from 5 countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and
Syria).
This action is totally absurd -- not mentioning to that Notepad++
project is far from a part of US property (like all the hosted
FOSS projects in SF), the fact that a FOSS hoster rejects the
access from some population is not only a discrimination action
but also a violation of fundamental FOSS principle.
We refuse to apply US government's vision, so that's our first
move: the new site under domain name NOTEPAD-PLUS-PLUS.ORG is
hosted by tuxfamily.org in a neutral territory (France).
Now replace Notepad++ with LyX or any other FOSS and you will get my point.
Regards
Alex Vergara
Resident in Cuba

This is not relevant to LyX, because we don't use sourceforge for any
official distribution.

Vincent

[Alex Vergara Gil]

----- Original Message -----
From: Vincent van Ravesteijn
To: Alex Vergara Gil ; lyx-devel
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: about sourceForge


This is not relevant to LyX, because we don't use sourceforge for any official distribution.

Vincent


Oh, good then, but since I saw that windows installers, for instance, are located in https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/TestVersions/ I thought this was the official site, my bad!!
As long as anyone can access LyX there's no problem
Keep the good work, I am waiting for LyX 2.1!!
Regards
Alex