Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:37:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Broken link at http://cygwin.com/faq.html Message-ID: <20050819133759.GE27521@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/