Re: [wwwdocs] Point some GCJ pages to the corresponding Wiki pages

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

Hi Ranjit,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>> There is only one caveat: would you mind ensuring that there are no 
>> external links to company pages/commercial pages that offer or advertise 
>> non-free software?  It's probably a good idea to add this somewhere on
>> that page as a reminder.
> While I understand where you're coming from, this might be a
> bit too draconian. For example, quickly scanning through the
> entries listed there I find:

I understand that this may appear strict.  However, this is not our
call, but guidelines we got from the FSF which I believe apply to
all web sites in the gnu.org domain.

Thanks for looking into the details of those items listed right now!

It seems we should not have linked to some of these to begin with;
this is not releated to the move to the Wiki, but a real issue we
would have needed to address either way.

> My point is that the "Done with GCJ" page serves to publicise
> the usage of GCJ in "real world" software to encourage more
> and more people to use it. I agree that we should not link to
> non-Free software. However, to restrict the links even further
> to entities offering only Free software would be counter-productive
> in this case.
> 
> Would removing the links, but retaining the blurbs, be an
> acceptable alternative?

According to my understanding this would work.

For example, for our announcements on the GCC homepage and the news
page, we do acknowledge the valuable contributions Apple, IBM, Novell,
and Red Hat (in alphabetical order) have been making, but do not link
to their home or product pages.

Gerald