It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils

Debian maintainer history: The original package was put together by
Ian Murdock , afterwards Kevin Dalley
took over. 2003-07 Andreas Metzler
followed.

Upstream Authors:
* GNU find was written by Eric Decker ,
with enhancements by David MacKenzie ,
Jay Plett ,
and Tim Wood .
The idea for -print0 and xargs -0 came from
Dan Bernstein .
Improvements have been made by James Youngman .

* 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
Paul Eggert
James Youngman
Jay Plett
Paul Sheer
Dmitry V. Levin
Bas van Gompel
Eric Blake
Andreas Metzler
Kamil Dudka
Bernhard Voelker


Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman .

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