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 Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
<gcs@debian.org>.
Previous maintainers were Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>,
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
Michael Fedrowitz <michaelf@debian.org> and Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>.
The upstream source is available at 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/', resp.
'ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/'.
Upstream Maintainer: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Copyright:
Copyright (C) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright (C) 1989-2012 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 3 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'.
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