This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of System V Init. Init was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg . This package was put together by Bruce Perens from pre- distribution sources. Ian Murdock integrated it into the base system maintained it until the end of 1995. Miquel van Smoorenburg has integrated debian support into the base package. Since version 2.80, debian support was taken out of the upstream package and is now only present in the Debian prepackaged version. This is so that debian support can be more easily split up into several seperate packages (sysvinit, sysvinit-rc, sysvinit-scripts) later on. Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2001 Miquel van Smoorenburg 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.