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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:34:03 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Broken link at http://cygwin.com/faq.html
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On 8/19/05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:26:51AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >On 8/19/05, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> >> http://cygwin.com/faq.html has one (I believe actually more than one)
> >> link to http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/ which is broken.
> >>
> >> I don't have the current URL at redhat.com, but thought you might want
> >> to know; it's kind of critical, since that's the pointer to the license
> >> information for non-GPL use.
> >
> >Thanks, it looks like it's
> >http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/
> >
> >I'll update this weekend.
> 
> Please just update the FAQ to point to http://cygwin.com/license.html .
> There is no need to keep this information in two places.
> 
> I think that this is a good rule to follow, in general.  The FAQ
> shouldn't be summarizing or paraphrasing information that is available
> elsewhere; it should be just pointing to the information.  IIRC, the FAQ
> also has advice on how to post to the cygwin mailing lists which is
> covered by http://cygwin.com/lists.html and
> http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

All done.

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