Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2004 Miquel van Smoorenburg Updated Copyright (C) 2018 Jesse Smith 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-2'. Send patches to sysvinit-devel@nongnu.org Regarding the start-stop-daemon located in the contrib directory: * A rewrite of the original Debian's start-stop-daemon Perl script * in C (faster - it is executed many times during system startup). * * Written by Marek Michalkiewicz , * public domain.