This is Debian's prepackaged version of Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras' rsync utility. This package provides the rsync program, which is a replacement for rcp that uses the rsync algorythm to transfer only the differences between two sets of files. This package was put together by Philip Hands , from sources obtained from: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz The current version was downloaded from: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9pre1.tar.gz on 2006-10-14 by Paul Slootman . The changes were very minimal - merely adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme by adding various debian/* files. The manpages also have quoting and hyphens fixed. COPYRIGHT --------- rsync was originally written by Andrew Tridgell and has been improved by many developers around the world. rsync may be used, modified and redistributed only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, found in the file: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian systems, or at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html