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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 09:21:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.org, juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Subject:   Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev]
Message-ID:  <199605120721.JAA29151@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605080727.JAA13921@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 8, 96 09:27:41 am

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J Wunsch writes:
>
> 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's made it into the new edition of "Installing FreeBSD".

> 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?

And the swapper.

Greg



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