[TUHS] Caldera ancient UNIX license question

Brantley Coile brantley at coraid.com
Mon Aug 13 21:52:34 AEST 2012


maybe Norman could speak to the attitudes about source code control and the perceived need for it.

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On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:32 AM, "arnold at skeeve.com" <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I'm
>>> sure there are other (mainly smaller) examples, though since we
>>> used no source-code control mechanism, tracing the details is
>>> non-trivial.
>> 
>> No SCCS?  When did Rochkind do SCCS?  Wasn't it early 70's?  I gotta believe
>> there is SCCS history out there.  And for the record, BitKeeper can read it.
> 
> I think Norman's point was that the Research guys didn't use a source
> code control system.  SCCS was around and documented in System III in 1980,
> so it was probably done before then, but not in the research group.
> 
> Arnold
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