Thanks All, this thread moved now to another mailing list for discussing this problem with EnterpriseDB folks (Bruce Momjian and others).
2010/6/15 Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:21, M. Bashir Al-Noimi <ad...@mbnoimi.net> > wrote: > > On 15/06/2010 06:00 ص, John Gage wrote: > > > > I ran the IP on http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check and it is > not > > blacklisted. > > > > Actually I suspect that pg takes same policy of sf.net where sf.netforbids > > open source projects to specific countries as mentioned in the following > > links (for that I migrated my projects from sf.net to Launchpad because > > sf.net works against FOSS): > > > http://arabcrunch.com/2010/01/following-clintons-internet-freedom-speech-us-based-sourceforge-blocked-syria-sudan-iran-korea-cuba-is-open-source-still-really-open.html > > > http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/ > > > http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/ > > > > So I wish to get a clarification about this issue, does pg forbids my > > country? is it still open source? > > PostgreSQL does *not* forbid your country. As you showed further down > this thread, you can reach the main website and mirror systems, so > that's not where the problem is. But you wanted a statement on it. > > This is, however, the second report in just a couple of days of people > not being able to reach the windows downloads that are hosted by > EnterpriseDB (I assume you are looking for the Windows downloads - if > you're actually looking for EnterpriseDB's commercial product, you > need to talk to them and not us). This indicates a real problem. > > Can someone from EnterpriseDB (hi, Dave!) verify with their provider > that they do *not* intentionally or unintentionally prevent people > from downloading the software based on their location? > > Unfortunately, there are no backup download locations available for > the windows installers, but you can always download the source off the > postgresql.org mirrors and build your own binaries. > > > -- > Magnus Hagander > Me: http://www.hagander.net/ > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ > -- Best Regards Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi My Blog: http://mbnoimi.net
