X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=history.adoc;h=47e1ce1377f02801c36a1e6e4ef138a56e2ef65d;hp=24f7fcf020ec652c189a7d91798216555c87ca94;hb=f43bacfa0f1b516df20b4e0bbd9065dd6da4a215;hpb=2935e07bc9b01751bfcb2972f84f5df1bc82d75c diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 24f7fcf..47e1ce1 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -26,14 +26,13 @@ at the Rand Corporation in 1977; this version was later, and still is, included in the BSD Games collection. I have it from Don Woods directly that "[Jim Gillogly] was one of the first to request and receive a copy of the source" but that Woods did not actually know of the BSD port -until I brefed him on it in 2017. (This contradicts some implications +until I briefed him on it in 2017. (This contradicts some implications in third-party histories.) Many other people ported and extended the game in various directions. A notable version was the first game shipped for the IBM Personal -Computer in 1981; this, for which neither Crowther nor Woods nor -Gillogly were paid royalties, what "The Original" was competing -against. +Computer in 1981; neither Crowther nor Woods nor Gillogly were paid +royalties. The history of these non-mainline versions is complex and murky. Functional differences were generally marked by changes in the @@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ open-source licensing were not yet fully established. The Makefile contained a rights reservation by Don Woods and that was it. I wrote to Don asking permission to release 2.5 under 2-clause BSD; -he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement. +he replied on 15 May 2017 giving both permission and encouragement. Here is what Don said about differences between the original Adventure and 2.5: