It was downloaded from ftp://alpha.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 originally written by Eric Decker, with enhancements by David MacKenzie, Jay Plett and Tim Wood. GNU xargs was originally written by Mike Rendell, with enhancements by David MacKenzie. GNU locate and its associated utilities were originally written by James Woods, with enhancements by David MacKenzie. The idea for `find -print0' and `xargs -0' came from Dan Bernstein. Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman . Copyright: Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 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 2, 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.