It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils Debian maintainer history: The original package was put together by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>, afterwards Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net> took over. 2003-07 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> followed. Upstream Authors: * GNU find was written by Eric Decker <cire@cisco.com>, with enhancements by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org>, Jay Plett <jay@silence.princeton.nj.us>, and Tim Wood <axolotl!tim@toad.com>. The idea for -print0 and xargs -0 came from Dan Bernstein <brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>. Improvements have been made by James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>. * GNU xargs was originally written by Mike Rendell, with enhancements by David MacKenzie. Modifications by James Youngman Dmitry V. Levin * GNU locate and its associated utilities were originally written by James Woods, with enhancements by David MacKenzie, James Youngman and Bas van Gompel. Upstream's AUTHORS lists these major contributors: Eric B. Decker Michael Rendell David J. MacKenzie Jim Meyering Tim Wood Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> Jay Plett Paul Sheer Dmitry V. Levin Bas van Gompel Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Andreas Metzler Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>. ---------------------------- Copyright (C) 1990-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ---------------------------- On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. ============================================= DOCUMENTATION ---------------------------- Copyright (C) 1994-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". ---------------------------- On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3'.