26 Apr
2010
26 Apr
'10
3:23 a.m.
On Sunday, 25 April 2010 at 11:28:29 +0200, Jacob Goense wrote:
That's about what I understood from as well from reading this column
at http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/tin/P/199503.shtml
"The 386BSD release CD-ROM includes a mixture of BSD and Jolitz code,
articles, and what have you. The files are hyperlinked with a global
glossary and index to illustrate the structure and interdependence in
the discussion of the system files.
Consequently, the CD-ROM release is not freeware, as a whole, though
many parts of it are freely redistributable. In particular, the system
itself will be available at certain "official" Internet sites,
still(unfortunately) to be determined at press time."
and I have dug around long enough to assume that 15 years later it is
still TBD where to get just the system.
OK, I mounted the CD-ROM and looked for copyright statements. The
only one I found was /COPYRGHT.TXT, a modified 8 paragraph BSD license
with \r\n line delimiters, attached.
Arguably it only applies to the OS sources, but it's the only license
I can see. It probibits commercial distributions, but the important
clause from our point of view is:
* 5. Non-commercial distribution of the complete source and/or binary
* release at no charge to the user (such as from an official Internet
* archive site) is permitted.
I was going to take out just the source tree, but another clause
states:
* 7. Non-commercial and/or commercial distribution of an incomplete,
* altered, or otherwise modified source and/or binary release is not
* permitted.
Since this is the only copyright statement, I assume that this means I
can put up the entire CD image, but not just part of it, so that's
what I've done. It's at http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/386BSD-1.0.bz2 .
If anybody finds anything that indicates that it shouldn't be made
available, please let me know and I'll pull it.
Greg
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It got me curious about where 386BSD ended though. Did
anyone save
the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null?
Yes, I have a copy. It was pretty much useless. All the
documentation was in some Microsoft format, and I couldn't read it.
Unfortunately Dr Dobbs has a copyright on it, or I could upload it for
the curious.