[TUHS] SVN of CSRG Releases

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Wed Jan 14 12:24:27 AEST 2015


On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 12:55:57 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:42:56PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> Aren't the SCCS sources for the real history online?  I know Kirk made
>> them available on his CD, I have them somewhere.
>
> In a previous private e-mail I received from Kirk, he said:
> 	The folks at UC
> 	Berkeley have always required me to track distributions of the SCCS
> 	files as they somehow think of them as still sensitive.
>
> which implies that the SCCS files cannot be released publicly. However,
> the SVN version is a "derivative" of the SCCS files and, on that basis,
> is publicly available. Go figure :)

Considering that all the SCCS files are on the CDs that Kirk
distributed, that's particularly strange.  My thought was that, with
the exception of Larry, nobody has the SCCS software any more.

Greg
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