Authors of GNU tar.
-The following contributions warranted legal paper exchanges with the
-Free Software Foundation. Also see files ChangeLog and THANKS.
-
-TAR Jay Fenlason
-Assigns his changes.
-
-TAR Richard E Salz 1993-03-11
-Disclaims changes to getdate.y.
-
-TAR MANUAL (?) Amy Gorin (US 1963) 1995-01-10
-Assigns the Tar Manual.
-
-TAR Francois Pinard Canada 1949 1996-02-01
-Assigns past and future changes.
-
-TAR Melissa Weisshaus US 1966 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes to the manual and future changes.
-melissa@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-
-TAR Thomas Michael Innis Bushnell US 1967 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes.
-thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-
-TAR Thomas Michael Innis Bushnell US 1967 1997-04-09
-Assigns changes to manual.
-thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+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 Salz.
+
+The FSF version, named GNU tar, was derived from public domain tar by
+Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall. Amy Gorin and Melissa Weisshaus
+contributed to the manual. GNU tar has been maintained in turn by
+Thomas Bushnell BSG, François Pinard, Paul Eggert, and Sergey
+Poznyakoff.
+
+Many others have contributed to GNU tar; please see the files THANKS
+and ChangeLog.