[Gfoss] [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [Spanish] Fwd: [Gvsig_usuarios] SEXTANTE +forbidden country]

Paolo Cavallini cavallini a faunalia.it
Mer 21 Maggio 2008 19:02:05 CEST


Interessante: i cubani non possono accedere a SEXTANTE, perche' google 
glielo vieta. A volte mi sembra che le nostre battaglie per l'apertura 
(del codice, dei dati, ecc.) siano anche eccessive, ma fortunatamente 
c'e' chi mi conferma l'importanza, non solo ideale, ma anche molto pratica.
Saluti.
pc

-------- Messaggio Originale  --------
"Hello to everybody,

I've just subscribed to the user & development gvSIG list, for we are in 
a process of aiming our work towards gvSIG and collaborating with the 
results, as a result of a new national project for GIS forest applications.

Due to the relationship we've begun to establish with gvSIG, we've 
received the idea of SEXTANTE project, which we are interested to know. 
I've tried to enter the site, but we are not allowed to access the 
information, with a message 'You are accessing this page from a 
forbidden country'.

Do you know any other way to get information about SEXTANTE in order to 
evaluate its technology, content, scope, that may help us to get the 
picture?

Greetings and thanks in advance"


The cause of this problem is that SEXTANTE project has its repository 
and its download site hosted on googlecode.com, which is regulated by US 
laws, and doesn't allow access to some countries like Cuba.

I send out some questions:

Should we *promote* avoiding the use of these kind of sites?

Is there any similar legal restriction in OSGeo resources?

Is there any legal conflict between a GPL license (SEXTANTE license) and 
a country-based restriction site for publishing the code/binaries? (Of 
course not messing with the friend Sextante project, but for warning 
people).
-- 
Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *



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