-GNU tar has originally been written by Graham Todd. Many people
-further contributed to GNU tar by reporting problems, suggesting
-various improvements or submitting actual code. Here is a list of
-these people. Help me keep it complete and exempt of errors.
+Public domain tar was written by John Gilmore, with contributions
+from Henry Spencer, Fred Fish, Ian Darwin, Geoff Collyer, Stan Barber,
+Guy Harris, Dave Brower, Richard Todd, Michael Rendell, Stu Heiss and
+Rich $alz. The FSF version, named GNU tar, was derived from PDTAR by
+Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall, and was maintained in turn by François
+Pinard and Paul Eggert.
+
+Many people further contributed to GNU tar by reporting problems,
+suggesting various improvements or submitting actual code. Here is a
+list of these people. Help me keep it complete and exempt of errors.
+See various ChangeLogs for a detailed description of contributions.