Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage

[Stuart Ballard]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Where is this software?

I haven't found it yet, but see postings from Brian Jones on this list 
where he indicates it's in OMG's FTP area (which I still can't find 
linked from their site). I guess that you could argue that since the 
problematic software is almost impossible to find from the link, it 
isn't a link to non-free software, but it *claims* to be such a link, 
and it's certainly a *reference* to non-free software - after reading 
that part of Classpath's homepage, it's quite possible that someone 
would independently search for OMG's implementation of these packages 
under the impression that they were Free.

> Where is this link?

http://www.classpath.org/ - search for "OMG". Then look at the heading 
of the section, which refers to "providers for free core packages". The 
org.omg packages provided by the OMG are non-free - again, see other 
postings in this thread, Brian's in particular.

> If there is a pointer to unfree software it must, per GNU rules, be removed.

That's what I thought.

Stuart.


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