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 Michael Fedrowitz
<michaelf@debian.org>.

Previous maintainers were Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>,
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> and Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>.

The upstream source is available at 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/', resp.
'ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/'.

Upstream Maintainer: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>

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,
   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

On Debian systems the complete text of the GNU General Public License can
be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
