Updates on project origin and naming

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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* [Building from GIT](#building-from-git)
* [Origin & References](#origin--references)
> **Tip:** the Gentoo project has a very nice article on their wiki
> detailing how to use and set up sysklogd ➤
> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysklogd>
> **Tip:** the Gentoo project has a very nice article detailing how to
> use and set up sysklogd ➤ <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysklogd>
Introduction
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- GNU configure & build system to ease porting/cross-compiling
- Support for configuring remote syslog timeout
Please file bug reports, or send pull requests for bug fixes and/or
proposed extensions at [GitHub][Home].
Using -lsyslog
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This is the continuation of the original sysklogd by Dr. G.W. Wettstein
and [Martin Schulze][]. Currently maintained, and almost completely
rewritten with the latest DNA strands from NetBSD and FreeBSD, by
[Joachim Wiberg][]. Please file bug reports, or send pull requests for
bug fixes and proposed extensions at [GitHub][Home].
rewritten by [Joachim Wiberg][], who spliced in fresh DNA strands from
the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects. Much of the code base is NetBSD, but
the command line interface is FreeBSD.
> **Note:** the project name remains `sysklogd`, which was a combination
> of the names of the two main daemons, `syslogd` and `klogd`. However,
> since v2.0 `klogd` no longer exists, kernel logging is now native to
> `syslogd`.
The project was previously licensed under the GNU GPL, but since the
removal of `klogd`, man pages, and resync with the BSDs the project is