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From: jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Re: Re: requested clarification of minix issues
Message-ID: <9006100107.AA03570@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Jun 90 01:07:16 GMT
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    [In the message entitled "Re: Re: requested clarification of minix issues" 
   on Jun  9, 11:53, Mark Geisert writes:]
    > To verify ownership of a legal copy of Minix, how about..
    
    The only way to "prove" ownership is to mail the _original_ disk, with
    the P/H copyright notice on it. This is the only proof that is acceptable,
    to me at least. No photocopies, "challanges", or anything else will suffice

What about if one's _original_ disk, with the P/H copyright
notice on it, was stolen?
This really happened here; does not having the original disk
leave me absolutely out in the cold?

How about constructing a patch kit containing cdifs for the NS32k
the minix  kernel, mm, and fs, with new files as appropriate?
I'd be happy with diffs from *any*  PC-minix version.  And I do mean *any*:

	 1.1		(the original floppy or tape from PH)
	 1.2		(the second floppy version from PH)
	 1.3[a-f]	(the pre-release kits or the third floppy)
         1.4.x		(never released by PH)
	 1.5.x		(not yet released by PH)

for any x. (The only original PH floppies I had were 1.1)
I still have all these versions, or can at least re-generate
them from patch kits. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Similar patch kits have been posted to Usenet by ast@cs.vu.nl; others
are available for anonymous FTP.   I think this solution would
be far and away the easiest for those of us who *do* follow
comp.os.minix.

--Jonathan Stone