From: ewtroan@ewt.raleigh.ibm.com (Erik Troan) Subject: Re: [Q] Where can I find SCCS for linux Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 13:52:10 GMT
In article <1993Apr26.040302.28468@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
|> In article <C5xJIv.5Dy@sci.kun.nl> wimjan@sci.kun.nl (Wim-Jan
Hilgenbos) writes:
|> >Hi,
|> >
|> >If I remember correctly I read 2 month ago something about SCCS
|> >ported to linux. Recently we started to use it at university so
|> >I like to have it for my linux system at home. I let archie search
|> >for it, but all it came up with were BSD-sources. So I'm wondering
|> >Is there a SCCS for linux? IF so where? If not so, can I use the
|> >BSD source?
|>
|> sccs is available on sunsite.unc.edu in
|> /pub/Linux/development/ver_cont/sccs.tar.Z.
|>
|> enjoy,
|> jem.
|>
|>
Incredible. I just removed sccs from sunsite, get to work, fire up my
newsreader for the first time since Friday, and there is a nice long thread
on SCCS.
A note from a concerned citizen prompted me to take a look at the sccs
distribution on sunsite (which was where jem said above). The source code
has *no* copyright information, even though one file (sccs.c) that I looked
at had an RCS tag indicating it was from UCB 4.2. As I have never seen
and legitimate bsd source code without a copyright notice, this made me a
little nervous.
Then I looked at the README, which said this as a port of sccs to linux
be PALMC (People Against Large Multinational Corporations), and the
port was done by "Bart", who apparently has no e-mail address.
Finally, I looked at the Makefile, which mentioned System III, but also
had no copyright.
These observations and my own knowledge that SCCS was oringally written
at AT&T and was thus owned by them prompted my to remove sccs from sunsite's
archives this morning. If anyone has
a) A freely available version of sccs or
b) Knowledge as to where this one came from
Please let me know so I can resolve that problem. Until I get more information,
sccs will no longer be available on sunsite.
Please direct all replies and flames to email at ewt@sunsite.unc.edu.
Erik
PS: To all potential uploaders of (C) stuff: While I support linux as strongly
as you do, I cannot allow non freely-distributable software on sunsite.
Please don't bother uploading it, as you are oonly making my life more
difficult and c.o.l. more noisy.
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When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
-- Woody Allen
Erik Troan = ewt@sunsite.unc.edu, ewtroan@vnet.ibm.com