Hi; >________________________________ > From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> ... > >Ughh. Obviously we cannot do this kind of research for every one of >the 64 thousand links. > >But in other cases we can help. For example this link is giving 404 error: > >http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html > >I think we removed that intentionally, since that is no longer our
Raises hand: one of the truly good uses I've made of my axe. >license. However, that link was used by many other websites, >including university course materials looking at open source licenses, >etc.: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~bylander/cs1023/chapter8links.html > The text in that link says "OpenOffice License": redirecting to the Apache License would've been more appropriate in this context but in general would've not been acceptable, so I think the 404 error is a reasonable solution. In this case breaking the link was actually a feature. >So in cases like this we might want to restore the page. Do our part >to help prevent bit rot and entropy from destroying the web. > We cannot do maintainance for broken links here. Perhaps we should remind users to report broken links on the originating websites. Pedro.
