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Date:      Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:33:37 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where's FreeBSD 1.x?
Message-ID:  <20030705040337.GL366@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030705034557.85069.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030705033105.GD366@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030705034557.85069.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Saturday,  5 July 2003 at  5:45:56 +0200, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>  --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:=20
> 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.

> 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?

Greg
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