>> Have you contacted Wind River Systems about it yet? You really need permission from them to make this happen.
If they own the copyright, then that's the first thing to do. Not because permission is more important, but because it's more likely to lead to "we don't even have the source any more, let us know if you find it" than if you approach them having a copy yourself already. I think your position will be stronger if you discover they don't even have a copy. If they do, then you don't need to find a copy yourself - they can provide it if they give you permission to do what you want.
Sure, they hold the copyright. What I question is weather they have the code. Both are needed to do anything with it. If they dont have the code its beneficial to find that out - then if/when someone finds a copy you've got half of what's needed, and that's bargaining power.
This is all rather petty for some obsolete software, but never underestimate a company response to interest in something they thought had no value.
If the copyright holder has lost the source-code, wouldn't they just say no anyway ?
Because if the copyright holder has lost the original source-code, how can they prove that there is a copyright infringement ?
A lawyer would probably advise to just say no to stay on the safe side :/
They have nothing: they lost the code. So no hashes or copyright headers.
If you find the source somewhere, and nobody else does, you're the only posssessor of the copyright headers, and can scrub them from any copy you show to anyone else.
