[Board] Sol Katz / MOSS sources -> new kind of "heritage project" ?

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hello,

On 28/03/2019 14:46, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> a few weeks back I noticed that the sources of MOSS ("oldest open
> source GIS") were taken offline by BLM. Others have noticed this
> earlier as the fact is mentioned on the Sol Katz award wikipage
> (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award).
> 
> In the meantime I contacted the library staff of BLM - they did not
> keep a digital copy of the MOSS sources.
> 
> 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.

Maybe this would be a good candidate to add to the software heritage
project ?

https://www.softwareheritage.org/

If someone has a source file, you can check directly on the website if
it is already there.

Best regards,

Vincent