From db7f06bf1be93dbfe43ef928b2310a7a4311072e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antti K
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:05:00 +0200
Subject: Document origin and inspiration in a separate file

This keeps source separate from history.
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+The `xspy` X11 keylogger was written, according to its source code comments, by
+Jon A. Maxwell. The source was found [floating about on the web][1] on Jul
+26th, 2014. The `xspy` program has been included in security-focused Linux
+distributions (at least BackTrack and BlackArch) seemingly in the same
+unchanged source form.
+
+According the comments, the program was written by Jon A. Maxwell (noted to
+also be known as "JAM") with the email address `jmaxwell@acm.vt.edu`. The
+author was not contactable.
+
+The code was rewritten to be more amenable to machine parsing and for
+GNU-C11-compatibility by Antti Korpi `an@cyan.io`. To sufficiently distinguish
+the completely different API and purpose, it was renamed.
+
+
+[1]: https://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/~ben/keyspeedapplet/xspy.c
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