Hi Fred My understanding of these services policies is that they do not explicitly prohibit large file hosting but will at least throttle accounts that show bandwidth usage higher than what they consider reasonable. I have not checked all the terms of service but here is as a reference, the clause from github
If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
I don't know how many release of the large DVD files are needed to build the free culture disk but if this number is not too high, I would point at bit torrent to leverage the difficult (free bandwidth; large files) couple. Julien On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
On 01/19/2012 08:05 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
It's unfortunately blocked where I live... :/
Hi Fred That might not be a great fire wall of China type block, it might be just the source site was re-configuring when you tried ?
From Munich German at Thu Jan 19 01:03:27 CET 2012 I see:
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Cheers, Julian
It's been blocked for ages. Are there file size limits on repositories like sourceforge or google code for example? (I could check that myself...)
Fred
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