It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils
Debian maintainer history: The original package was put together by
Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>, afterwards Kevin Dalley
<kevind@rahul.net> took over. 2003-07 Andreas Metzler
<ametzler@debian.org> followed.
Upstream Authors:
* GNU find was written by Eric Decker <cire@cisco.com>,
with enhancements by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org>,
Jay Plett <jay@silence.princeton.nj.us>,
and Tim Wood <axolotl!tim@toad.com>.
The idea for -print0 and xargs -0 came from
Dan Bernstein <brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>.
Improvements have been made by James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>.
* 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 <kevind@rahul.net>
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Jay Plett
Paul Sheer
Dmitry V. Levin
Bas van Gompel
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Andreas Metzler
Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>.
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