This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of System V Init.  Init
was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>.

This package was put together by Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> from pre-
distribution sources. Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> integrated it into
the base system maintained it until the end of 1995. Miquel van Smoorenburg
<miquels@cistron.nl> 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 is so
that debian support can be more easily split up into several seperate
packages (sysvinit, sysvinit-rc, sysvinit-scripts) later on.

Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2001 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., 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'.