From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:25:06 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance? In-Reply-To: <32fbfeec-a3eb-796b-c243-5c6af478ea04@kilonet.net> References: <23bbfb06-2de6-a9e1-0786-3f46d17c1192@kilonet.net> <32fbfeec-a3eb-796b-c243-5c6af478ea04@kilonet.net> Message-ID: My understanding is that System V source of any sort is not legal to distribute. I believe that source exists and has been archived for at least some variants of SVR1, SVR2, SVR3, and SVR4. -Henry On 1 March 2017 at 14:18, Arthur Krewat wrote: > The site is rife with warez, I understand that, I was wondering about the > "legality" of distributing that source code, and if legal, if it had been > archived somewhere else already. > > > > > On 3/1/2017 1:27 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > >> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Henry Bent wrote: >> >> They decide, arbitrarily and with no real legal basis, that "if something >>> is older than x arbitrary date, it must be OK to distribute," or "if >>> something is for an operating system that no one really uses, it must be OK >>> to distribute." Why they do not get shut down is a mystery to me. I >>> believe the concept started with old games for DOS and has spread to >>> include operating systems and other software. >>> >> >> I openly used a profane word referring to bovine excrement as my opinion >> of this concept of "abandonware". >> >> It's just warez, plain and simple. >> >> -uso. >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: