Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The point is that archive.org will keep that copy online even if > >> hp.com decides to shut it down or change it. > > > There is a question to the legality of the archive.org copy. The legal > > notice of the document states that there must be a valid license for > > the product to copy. > > > *IF* we link that document, we need to link to the HP site. > > Uh, this is nonsense. Even if archive.org is violating HP's copyright > (a point un-tested at law), we cannot be violating anything by which > URL we choose to point to.
Right, it seems like it would be archive.org's problem. > The main problem with using the link as it stands is that it is *highly* > unlikely that it will remain valid for the lifespan of the PG 8.3 > documentation (let alone subsequent versions). I've been dealing with Did you see Alvaro's archive.org URL that showed it was the same in September, 2006? > HP's website for many years and I have good reason to know that page > URLs of the kind that Bruce has chosen to quote do not have long shelf > lives. > > Personally I would vote for not having the link there at all. It is not > adding anything very critical to our docs, it is likely to be broken > soon (for some value of soon), and if there is any question about the > legality then that's just frosting on the cake. I found it useful and I think others will as well. Agreed it is not critical, but does a URL have to be critical to be on our docs. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
