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 was in preparance for the split into separate packages (sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts) which has been realized in version 2.85. The upstream source is available at: Primary-Site: ftp.cistron.nl /pub/people/miquels/software 92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz Alternate-Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/daemons/init 92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz The sysvinit package in debian is maintained as an alioth project. The project page is http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sysvinit/. Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2004 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., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.