Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D5B2E0266 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:57:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43071-01-2 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:57:06 -0400 (AST) Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADD32E034E for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:27:16 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m115REY16826; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:27:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200802010527.m115REY16826@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library In-Reply-To: <17801.1201842607@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:27:14 -0500 (EST) CC: "Joshua D. Drake" , Alvaro Herrera , Pavel Golub , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200802/3 X-Sequence-Number: 4797 Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" writes: > > Alvaro Herrera 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 http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +