[flashrom] [commit] r695 - trunk

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> do you have some mechanism to check these URLs if they still make sense?

Not right now, but I (or someone else) can check from time to time, or we
can use one of the many URL-checker perl scripts that are around to
check if they're 404.


> It's very likely that the URLs change,  while we're not having a new,
> fixed version out, or that we don't notice when a vendor renames or
> removes URLs.
> 
> I think we should refrain from using URLs to vendor sites in our
> software like this. For actuality, and for legal reasons.

Hm, I don't see any legal issues here, it's just URLs for informational
purposes of the users (just like those on
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards).

Some of the links may break, yes, but even an old
link is still useful for pasting into archive.org (but should be fixed
to the new URL -- if any -- when we notice breakage, of course).


Uwe.
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