9 Sep
2024
9 Sep
'24
12:32 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:53 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
I have CDs of 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0. I had 1.x, but I
can't put my hands
on them right now. Maybe they were on QIC tape, in which case they're
probably unrecoverable. I also have source trees for 4.0, 4.1 and the
development version of 5.0 which I used to write the code for FreeBSD.
That's a good collection there. A generous list member has shared 1.0 with me.
I have looked at the 5.1 Contrib CD. The "PACKAGES" directory has had
its first block overwritten with a directory(?) block from HFS(?).
Some sort of memory corruption happened. However, I've recovered every
file. They are either short, readable text or gzipped tarballs with
MD5 files. Everything checks out fine. I'll be creating a new iso and
making it available.
But assuming that most of the other BSD/OS images are from the same
source, we can't trust that any are okay. :(
What's the legal situation about distributing
them?
Only some lawyer somewhere might someday be able to answer that to
some extent. I'd be surprised if whoever the current IP owner is knows
that they are.
Jim