-=> Quoting Kim Forwood to Russ Wuertz <=-
 KF> Russ Wuertz wrote: 
 
 RW> I have the working pascal code for Telegard BBS.  Does anyone
 RW> have a pascal 2 C converter to run it through?
 
 RW> I have that code available if anyone wants it.  Its a five minute
 RW> download though.  
 KF> Are you sure it's public domain? If it is, where can we find it?
     There is (well, was) much debate on whether this is actually public 
domain. It was "reportedly" released by one of the three original "authors". 
The only other active author at the time maintains that this release violates 
his copyright on a significant portion of the code and therefore the source 
is 
technically NOT public domain.
     However in as much as the law recognizes the releasing author as a valid 
holder of copyright, they also recognize that he has the right to release the 
code (barring legal action of other authors). No such action was taken, or is 
pending, therefore one can argue that the source "as is" is PD.
     On another note, this is TG 2.5g (or variation thereof). It is in no way 
functionally similar to the current TG release. RG was originally built from 
this source (as were a number of other BBSes). You will find that aside from 
the general look and feel (and numerous security holes which were common to 
bbses of that time) it has little in common with the current release.
     The code will not compile (but any pascal programmer can easily fix 
this). It will take a little debugging to make it work (a good programmer can 
get past this relatively quickly). And then it's functionally equivalent to 
2.5g and certainly will require a complete rework to make it even begin to 
resemble the more secure newer version by Tim Strike.
     I'll be honest, you could write a better BBS from scratch if you can 
write a general purpose COMM program. But if you're just curious, it's a 
great 
curiosity.
     Being a friend of the current author I cannot with good conscience offer 
to distribute the file or even tell you where to locate it. I can however 
tell 
you that at last check I did see it available on the WWW posing as source for 
version "I". And I know of at least one web page that offers a number of BBS 
source codes.
Dave...
... THD ProScan support on the web, http://www.idigital.net/dmuir
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