This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU tar.  GNU
tar, heavily based on John Gilmore's public domain version of tar,
was originally written by Graham Todd.  It is now maintained by
Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>.

This package was put together by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/tar-1.11.8.tar.gz

This package is currently maintained for the Debian distribution by
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>.

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files

GNU tar is Copyright (C) 1988, 1992, 1993 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; version 2 dated June, 1991.

   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., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.
