This is the Debian sharutils package. It was first put together by Bill Mitchell and it is currently maintained by Santiago Vila . Source code was downloaded from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.2.1.tar.gz Some patches have been applied to fix several bugs here and there. See the .diff.gz file and the changelog for details. The following copyright notices can be found in the source code: uuencode and uudecode: Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. shar and unshar: Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. remsync: Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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 2 of the License, 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. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.