Conquest starts being posted to comp.sources.games (26 October 1987)
v02i058: conquest – middle earth multi-player game, Part01/05
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games/browse_thread/thread/d7cf1d13d3ad2a18/324b78a5bf6ff2ea?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=517#324b78a5bf6ff2ea
conquest newsletter #2 on rec.games.empire (12 Nov. 1997)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/fab56ce19c4b0f90/f9bc206de4016cbe#f9bc206de4016cbe
Conquest Newsletter #3 on rec.games.empire
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/e62718c10cd8d3d2/957c0bb68ea157fe?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=4#957c0bb68ea157fe
Conquer 3: v04i042: conquer3 – middle earth multi-player game (V3), Part01/08
on comp.sources.games (16 June 1988)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games/browse_thread/thread/23bfc97badb334ba/f1316ffe73640157?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=496#f1316ffe73640157
Other things….
Abusing the rules
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games.bugs/browse_thread/thread/182e7402b6fdfaa1/17685beba70b796b?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=497#17685beba70
Bugs were posted to comp.sources.games.bugs
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games.bugs/browse_thread/thread/65313fdd9a9d11b5/657e1757d3543427?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=498#657e1757d35
More bugs, and first message from Adam Bryant on 23 January 1988
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/9d7fcbfe2da74628/ea45e9187af496de?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=500#ea45e9187af496de
In 2006, a certain Vejeta contacts the authors to relicense the
code, and manages to contact Ed Barlow, who gives permission to
relicense it.
http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5945
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00063.html
On 23 February 2011, vejeta.com receives a message through its
contact form. It is Adam Bryant, who has heard
about the request to free the code. He grants permission to release
the code under the GPL.
The original code could be extracted and assembled from the original messages
on USENET with some tools I do not remember right now.
Additional notes:
Asking on barrapunto about the way to relicense it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180707202804/http://barrapunto.com/~vejeta/journal/22901
About conquer and dominion: https://groups.google.com/group/es.comp.os.unix/browse_thread/thread/808b677b6af29aea/79a5a3abd161f7f1?q=conquer+vejeta+estrategia#79a5a3abd161f7f1
Looking for the family tree of conquer and dominion and their relation with xconq (year 2006)
http://sourceware.org/ml/xconq7/2006/msg00007.html
http://old.nabble.com/Family-tree-of-xconq-td6575167.html
About Dominion, and a possible version 3
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dominion-discuss/2006-09/msg00000.html
Moria, Conquer, Dominion and the rest…(year 2005)
About Dominion (year 2003)