Request to link to your website
Hello: The University of Phoenix, a for-profit university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, would like to link to one or more pages within https://cygwin.com and install the associated software. The link(s) will be provided to students and faculty within university courses; the university will not be copying your content. While your terms of service seem to allow direct linking to your site, we prefer to seek your permission. Does the University of Phoenix have permission to link to this website? Sincerely, Kristopher Kelly, MIS, MBA Learning Content Services University of Phoenix 4025 S Riverpoint Pkwy | Mail Stop CF-K410 | Phoenix AZ 85040 T. 602.557.3051 | F. 602.643.0871 kristopher.ke...@phoenix.edu phoenix.edu -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Request to link to your website
On 2017-10-26 09:43, Kristopher Kelly wrote: > The University of Phoenix, a for-profit university accredited by the Higher > Learning Commission, would like to link to one or more pages within > https://cygwin.com and install the associated software. The link(s) will be > provided to students and faculty within university courses; the university > will not be copying your content. > While your terms of service seem to allow direct linking to your site, we > prefer to seek your permission. Does the University of Phoenix have > permission to link to this website? As Cygwin is a volunteer project with limited resources (the .com is a remnant of when it used to be part of Cygnus then RedHat), and support is only by email to subscribers to the mailing list from subscribers (OP CCed as they are unlikely to be subscribed), it seems unsuitable for either registering or supporting a population of hundreds to thousands of students. Software packages are only available from public mirrors listed on https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, so perhaps they could set up a public mirror as described on that page, including the website and setup programs, or a local private mirror from a nearby public mirror, and provide local support like most universities do. Not sure who would even be able to give permission for linking - someone in the sourceware.org hosting umbrella organization for these projects must have some authority? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Request to link to your website
On 2017-10-26 09:43, Kristopher Kelly wrote: > The University of Phoenix, a for-profit university accredited by the Higher > Learning Commission, would like to link to one or more pages within > https://cygwin.com and install the associated software. The link(s) will be > provided to students and faculty within university courses; the university > will not be copying your content. > While your terms of service seem to allow direct linking to your site, we > prefer to seek your permission. Does the University of Phoenix have > permission to link to this website? As Cygwin is a volunteer project with limited resources (the .com is a remnant of when it used to be part of Cygnus then RedHat), and support is only by email to subscribers to the mailing list from subscribers (OP CCed as they are unlikely to be subscribed), it seems unsuitable for either registering or supporting a population of hundreds to thousands of students. Software packages are only available from public mirrors listed on https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, so perhaps they could set up a public mirror as described on that page, including the website and setup programs, or a local private mirror from a nearby public mirror, and provide local support like most universities do. Not sure who would even be able to give permission for linking - someone in the sourceware.org hosting umbrella organization for these projects must have some authority? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Request to link to your website
On 26.10.2017 08:43, Kristopher Kelly wrote: The University of Phoenix, a for-profit university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, would like to link to one or more pages within https://cygwin.com and install the associated software. The link(s) will be provided to students and faculty within university courses; the university will not be copying your content. Wow, outlandish ... In the long run, it may be cheaper for the U of Phoenix to get some sort of group counselling for this paranoia, if it is departmentally proliferated. If permission had to be obtained for every link, we would not have a World Wide Web to speak of. You do realize there are user-submission-driven news sites out there which feature hundreds of stories daily, each with a random link to something? SlashDot has been doing this since 1997; twenty years. Yes, it is safe to come out of your bunker; the radio-activity report was exaggerated ... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
