Christoph Lameter (christoph@lameter.com) created the Debian iptables package on March 26, 2000. Source archive change: bunzip2 -dc iptables-1.2.6a.tar.bz2 | \ gzip -9 > iptables_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz The sources for this package were downloaded from: http://www.netfilter.org/files/iptables-1.2.6.tar.bz2.sig http://www.netfilter.org/files/iptables-1.2.6.tar.bz2 http://www.netfilter.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.6a.txt http://www.netfilter.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.?.html http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO.sgml http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO.sgml http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-hacking-HOWTO.sgml http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-extensions-HOWTO.sgml The copyright of iptables is the GPL (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL). iptables grew out of the netfilter software whose ancestor in turn was the ipchains software. A large number of people contributed to the software over the years. The core team developing iptables consisted of: Jozsef Kadlecsik, Harald Welte, James Morris, Marc Boucher, Rusty Russell A additional list of contributors is at: http://www.netfilter.org/