From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 8 00:55:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA05706 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 00:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05541 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 00:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA21970; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:51:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA26252; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:51:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA13921; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:27:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605080727.JAA13921@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:27:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9605080002.AA12201@antares.aero.org> from Mike O'Brien at "May 7, 96 05:01:53 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike O'Brien wrote: > > Yep, but since it's copyrighted, he rules what happens to anything > > that closely resembles HIS daemon. > > I wonder if he can copyright something I owned ten years before? Seems > odd that he can do that without having inherited the rights. He can, since you haven't copyrighted your version before. Anyway: funny story. :) Pity that it didn't make it into Salus' book. It raised the question in me how many daemons there have been in the early Unices. Most of our current daemons are somehow related to network activities. I think, only init, update, and cron have already been there in V7? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)