On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. >
Certainly we can fix this on our end. In fact I just did: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html This isn't rocket science. It is just a minor courtesy to website visitors not to break common links for no good reason. -Rob > Pedro.
