This repository captures and reconstructs the historical revisions of the fortune command, all the way from the initial 1979 implementation in UNIX/32V to Pascal Hakim's v1.99.1 that most modern versions (including https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod) are derived from.
Look at the git history to see -- many of my commits contain notes about reconstruction, including omissions/etc.
- Importing debian versions after 1.99.1-1 (current is 1.99.1-7.3), see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fortune-mod.
- Fixing up time/author/etc of commits.
- Other branches of fortune e.g. FreeBSD.
- How 1.99.1 pulls in changes from Debian. I don't think there's enough publicly available information for this, other than maybe by digging through the CVS history in https://alioth-archive.debian.org/cvs/fortune.tar.xz.
- Debian revisions before 9708-27. -26 is in that CVS repo but is kinda unclear due to it gradually importing from both -25 and -26.
- I don't think these exist anymore, but revisions of Amy's versions corresponding to changes in
Changelog.
- BSD source code from The Unix Heritage Society https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl, plus information about the history of BSD from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution and https://gunkies.org/wiki/Main_Page.
- 4.4BSD-Lite from http://http.pl.scene.org/pub/unix/systems/BSD/4.4BSD-Lite/.
- 368BSD from https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd.
- Florian La Roche's version from https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/util/games/ (and I think also https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsite.unc.edu/Sep-29-1996/games/).
- Amy A. Lewis's version from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsite.unc.edu/Sep-29-1996/games.
- Dennis L. Clark's version from https://web.archive.org/web/19990506115004/http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~dbugger/hacks/hacks.html.
- Pascal Hakim's version from https://web.archive.org/web/20070829015625/http://www.redellipse.net/code/fortune.
- Historical Debian sources are from https://snapshot.debian.org/package/fortune-mod/, with more detail from https://alioth-archive.debian.org/cvs/fortune.tar.xz.
My reconstruction of the history is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
However, the licensing of the actual source code is more complicated, and is something I haven't taken the time to document.