This is the Debian Linux prepackaged version of the GNU id utilities. Upstream Authors: The id-utils were written by Greg McGary, who assigned his copyright to the FSF on March 1, 1996. Claudio Fontana currently maintains the upstream version. id-utils.texi was written by Tom Horsley, and explicitly not copyrighted, but contributed to the public domain. An FSF copyright has since been affixed. Debian Authors: Originally packaged for Debian from the GNU source by Erick Branderhorst . The current version based on git://git.savannah.gnu.org/idutils.git The current Debian maintainer is Brad Bosch . Copyright: 1986-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: 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 3, 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, see . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. The Debian packaging is Copyright (C) 1992-2013, Bradley A. Bosch and is licensed under the GPL, see above.