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Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage
From: |
Andrew Haley |
Subject: |
Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:53:01 +0100 |
Stuart Ballard writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > FSF pages don't link to unfree software projects. It seems that OMG
> > is not be an unfree software project, because "Implementations of the
> > OMG specifications - such as Object Request Brokers, IDL compilers,
> > and UML-based modeling tools - are not produced by OMG. They are,
> > instead, produced by software vendors or suppliers..."
>
> But the link is provided specifically to get some software that *is*
> produced by the OMG, and is non-free.
Where is this software?
> I see three distinct issues here:
>
> 1) The link doesn't actually take you to a place where you can get the
> software in question, so it's pretty useless as a link anyway.
>
> 2) The link is in a section labelled "providers for free core packages",
> but the software in question is not free. You could argue that "free" in
> this context means zero-cost, but on a GNU project such usage is at best
> VERY ambiguous and at worst outright misleading.
Where is this link?
> 3) GNU projects aren't supposed to link to non-free software, so the
> link shouldn't exist in the first place. A link to OMG *could* be
> legitimate, if it was in the context of "the people who define the CORBA
> specification, including the org.omg packages". But even though the OMG
> is not in itself a non-free software project, I can't see how "go to the
> OMG to get this software", when the software in question is non-free, is
> not a link to non-free software.
>
> To fix 3, the link must be removed entirely. If for some reason 3
> doesn't need to be fixed (eg I'm misinterpreting GNU project policy), at
> least 1 and 2 should be.
If there is a pointer to unfree software it must, per GNU rules, be removed.
But I've failed to find it, and I did try.
Andrew.
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, (continued)
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Brian Jones, 2003/10/20
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/21
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Tom Tromey, 2003/10/21
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Patrik Reali, 2003/10/21
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Brian Jones, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Ricky Clarkson, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Andrew Haley, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage,
Andrew Haley <=
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Mark Wielaard, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Brian Jones, 2003/10/22
- Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/22
- Classpath and org.omg.*, Stephen Crawley, 2003/10/22
- Re: Classpath and org.omg.*, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/23
- Re: Classpath and org.omg.*, Chris Gray, 2003/10/23
- Re: Classpath and org.omg.*, Stuart Ballard, 2003/10/23
- Re: Classpath and org.omg.*, Mark Wielaard, 2003/10/23
- Re: Classpath and org.omg.*, Mark Wielaard, 2003/10/23