Authors of GNU tar. Public domain tar was written by John Gilmore, with contributions from Henry Spencer, Fred Fish, Ian Darwin, Geoff Collyer, Stan Barber, Guy Harris, Dave Brower, Richard Todd, Michael Rendell, Stu Heiss, and Rich Salz. The FSF version, named GNU tar, was derived from public domain tar by Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall. Amy Gorin and Melissa Weisshaus contributed to the manual. GNU tar has been maintained in turn by Thomas Bushnell BSG, François Pinard, Paul Eggert, and Sergey Poznyakoff. Many others have contributed to GNU tar; please see the files THANKS and ChangeLog.