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binarycrusader on April 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II as...

No license or copyright stated. Doh!

(Which technically means we don't have permission to do anything with the source at all, though I doubt that's what Jordan intended.)

eru on April 17, 2012 [–]

You can trade patches. Isn't that how Linux got started, as patches to Minix?

gumbo72 on April 17, 2012 | [–]

No, it started as a Minix clone by Linus.

plaes on April 18, 2012 | | [–]

Nope, it was initially a terminal emulator, which he used to access the large UNIX servers of the university. Initial development was done on Minix.

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