This is Debian's prepackaged version of patch, Larry Wall's program that
allows you to apply diffs to a file automagically.
The current maintainer for this package is Christoph Berg
.
Previous maintainers were Bill Mitchell ,
Darren Stalder , Adrian Bunk , and
Michael Fedrowitz .
The upstream source is available at 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/', resp.
'ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/'.
Upstream Maintainer: Paul Eggert
Copyright:
Copyright (C) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002,
2003 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, 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; see the file COPYING.
If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
On Debian systems the complete text of the GNU General Public License can
be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.