This is Debian/GNU Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU time utility.
`time' is a program that measures many of the CPU resources, such as time and
memory, that other programs use. It was written by David MacKenzie.

This package was put together by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> from the
previous Debian package time-1.6-2 (from ftp.debian.org) and the GNU sources
for time-1.6 (from ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu, a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
Changes are the Debian package maintenance system and a small patch to the
configure script.

GNU time is Copyright (C) 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; version 2 dated June, 1991.

   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'.