It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils Debian maintainer history: The original package was put together by Ian Murdock , afterwards Kevin Dalley took over. 2003-07 Andreas Metzler followed. Upstream Authors: * GNU find was written by Eric Decker , with enhancements by David MacKenzie , Jay Plett , and Tim Wood . The idea for -print0 and xargs -0 came from Dan Bernstein . Improvements have been made by James Youngman . * 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 Paul Eggert James Youngman Jay Plett Paul Sheer Dmitry V. Levin Bas van Gompel Eric Blake Andreas Metzler Kamil Dudka Bernhard Voelker Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman . ---------------------------- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 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 . ---------------------------- 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, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003-2016 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'.