1 This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU tar. GNU
2 tar, heavily based on John Gilmore's public domain version of tar,
3 was originally written by Graham Todd. It is now maintained by
4 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>.
6 This package is maintained for Debian by Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>, and
7 was built from the sources found at:
9 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
11 More recently, I'm directly using the upstream source repository at
13 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git
17 Copyright (C) 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
18 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
20 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
21 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
22 Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
25 On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
26 License version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
28 The Debian packaging is
30 Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
32 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
33 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
34 Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
37 On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
38 License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.