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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by pjmlp on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:04AM (#5218899)
> I could have lived with the "no commercial use" restriction that's typically used, but to not have a right to redistribute at all severely restricts its utility.

As long the web site stays up, everyone is free to go there and download it for himself/herself.

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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by shabble on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:03AM (#5219452)
It means that something like the excellent annotated source reviews by Fabien Sanglard of Quake[1], Quake2[2], Q3[3], etc.. aren't possible.

Nor any ports to attempt ot make it compileable/runnable.

Code isn't supposed to be hung on a wall. If you can't even collaborate to make it work again, it does lose a lot, and waiting ~95 years isn't really a practical alternative.

Will the website stay up that long? Is archive.org allowed to preserve it?

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

[2] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php

[3] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php

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Re:Photoshop 1.0 Source Code by pjmlp on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:49AM (#5219645)
You could always make references to the original code.
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