Where's FreeBSD 1.x?
Josef Grosch
jgrosch at mooseriver.com
Fri Jul 4 23:03:34 PDT 2003
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:33:37PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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> Quoting broken.
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> On Saturday, 5 July 2003 at 5:45:56 +0200, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:
> > On Monday, 30 June 2003 at 12:45:44 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:28:15AM +0200, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> >>>>> Hi;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was looking at the "ancient" UNIX code and there are some good
> >>>>> things there... Is there a FreeBSD 1.x repository somewhere?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.gldis.ca/~gldisater/oldnix/1.1.5.1-RELEASE.tgz
> >>>
> >>> Just remember that this code was supposed to be destroyed after
> >>> the USL lawsuit, so I wouldn't use it for anything you care about.
> >>
> >> Since the release of "Ancient UNIX" under the BSD license, there's
> >> nothing to worry about.
> >
> > No need to ask a lawyer or anything?
>
> Not if you believe Caldera's release last year. See
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ for details. Unfortunately, they
> didn't give us a hardcopy of the release, but so far nobody believes
> it to be a fake.
Caldera and the The Unix Heritage Society worked out a deal where the 32V
license and everything covered by it was made available to hobbyists. I am
almost positive that this deal was worked out several years ago.
Kirk McKusick was/is selling a 4 CD set of the source code for $100.00.
I've got one of these packed away in a closet somewhere. Here are a few URL
http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/index.html
http://www.tuhs.org/
It's interesting to note that this set contains the complete source code to
4.3tahoe, 4.3reno, 4.4, 4.4BSD-Lite1, net.1, net.2, and 4.4BSD-Lite2
A clever person with a bit of perl could figure out what the 7 tainted files
are.
>
> > Wouldn't the fact that those files exist mean that someone was
> > breaking the law at a certain moment??
>
> Well, it's not a law. It was a civil action. But any such moment is
> now long gone.
>
> > Since I knew FreeBSD only when 2.0.5 Release was made, I have no
> > idea about the details.. did freeBSD developers use something like
> > CVS, perhaps SCCS ? It would be nice to have this old history
> > available.. for hobbyist value.
>
> I'm pretty sure it was CVS in those days. I have sources, but no CVS
> tree. Does anybody else?
I am almost positive there was a CVS tree in those days. I remember learning
how to use CVS back then and using some ones email instructions, Terry
Lambert?, on how to use CVS. I also remember Jordan making a comment at a
BAFUG meeting about sucking the CVS tree across a modem when he was still
living in Ireland.
Josef
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