Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum
'As part of the Apple Lisa's 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple's blessing, the Pascal source code is available for download from the CHM website after filling out a form.
Lisa Office System 3.1 dates back to April 1984, during the early Mac era, and it was the Lisa equivalent of operating systems like macOS and Windows today.
The entire source package weighs is about 26MB and consists of over 1,300 commented source files, divided nicely into subfolders that denote code for the main Lisa OS, various included apps, and the Lisa Toolkit development system.'
-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/pioneering-apple-lisa...
Cheers, Peter
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:54:29 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'As part of the Apple Lisa's 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement.'
Don’t call it “open source” (as the article does). I hate it when these people think “open source” is a desirable, snazzy-sounding brand they can just stick on anything.
There is an official definition for the term https://opensource.org/osd. In particular, note article 6:
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
So, no such thing as “non-commercial/personal/research use only”.
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