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<p>Peter, have you tried looking for the source in the Internet
Archive: <a href="https://archive.org/">https://archive.org/</a></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/3/19 1:21 am, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">That is a great idea, amazing they did not keep
a digital copy. Did any of the previous versions ship source
code that we could use as an archive?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:47
AM "Peter Löwe" <<a href="mailto:peter.loewe@gmx.de"
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a few weeks back I noticed that the sources of MOSS ("oldest
open source GIS") were taken offline by BLM.<br>
Others have noticed this earlier as the fact is mentioned on
the Sol Katz award wikipage (<a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award</a>).<br>
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In the meantime I contacted the library staff of BLM - they
did not keep a digital copy of the MOSS sources.<br>
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If the source code of MOSS should be recovered, I would like
to propose to make MOSS a OSGeo "heritage" project or
something similar, and to preserve the sources in an
OSGeo-controlled software repo. At the very least, we could
make sure to deposit the code in the Zenodo archive.<br>
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In the meantime, I went ahead and created a wiki page with
links to still existing MOSS-related documentation:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS</a><br>
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best,<br>
Peter<br>
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PS: If anyone of y'all should have a local copy of the MOSS
repo, please speak up :-)<br>
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