On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:54 AM, 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. > Hi Pedro-- Well not exactly. There are actually "items" on our sight that do indeed use LGPL and so we need to point folks to the real home of this license. I think we've got areas covered that use ALv2. > > >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. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool." -- Eddie Van Halen
