This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of sed - the GNU stream oriented editor. This package was assembled from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed-3.02.tar.gz It is currently maintained by Wichert Akkerman Change to the upstream release are: * added a manpage for sed GNU sed 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 2, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian GNU/Linux systems you can find a copy of the GPL in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL