This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the grep program. Currently Anibal Monsalve Salazar maintains the Debian GNU/Linux version of grep. Robert van der Meulen and Ryan M. Golbeck were the previous maintainers. This package was created from the grep sources as found on the GNU mirrors. Grep is copyrighted as described below: Copyright 1992, 1997-1999, 2000 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 St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. On a Debian system you can find a copy of this license in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.