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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