Bug #12762: missing links in LEGAL

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: trunk
• Backport: 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: DONE, 2.5: DONE

[znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA)]

• LEGAL の Oniguruma の節にある URL が以下の3つ全てリンク切れのようです。
• random.c の http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html もないようです。
• ext/win32ole/win32ole.c の http://www.ActiveWare.com もないようです。

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

In some cases, there may be no way anymore to access the information, but the LEGAL file may still need to document where we got the information from. That means that we may need to keep the dangling links because we have nothing better. Maybe we can add something like "accessed at DATE" or so.

[vagish (Vagish Vela)]

We can also attach wayback machine links such as http://web.archive.org/web/19990429082237/http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html (for random.c の http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html もないようです。).
We can only do this for links we can find.

I can do this and submit a patch? Haven't done this before.

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

The wayback machine idea sounds good.

In addition to that, perhaps for links that may no longer exist, one could mention the year where it last worked or so, just as a rough guide for people who may want to find out when something became obsolete (I mean the link itself).

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r62513.

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Update url with 404 status on LEGAL file.

• Update redirected and upstream url.
• Added the Wayback Machine url for missing link.

[Bug #12762][ruby-dev:49802]

From: SHIBATA Hiroshi [e-mail]

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Assignee set to hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)
• Backport changed from 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN to 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED, 2.5: REQUIRED

ライセンス自体に URL が埋め込まれているものはそのままにして The Wayback Machine の URL を追加、新しい先があるものはそれらを更新などしました。

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED, 2.5: REQUIRED to 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED, 2.5: DONE

ruby_2_5 r62561 merged revision(s) 62513.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED, 2.5: DONE to 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: DONE, 2.5: DONE

ruby_2_4 r63804 merged revision(s) 62513.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Related to Bug #16820: LEGAL is out of sync added