This file will be updated to use the new dep5 schema soon, please reach out to the maintainers if you'd like to help with that. This is Debian's prepackaged version of Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras' rsync utility. This package provides the rsync program, which is a replacement for rcp that uses the rsync algorythm to transfer only the differences between two sets of files. This package was put together by Philip Hands , from sources obtained from: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz The current version was downloaded from: https://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.0.tar.gz on 2018-12-02 by Samuel Henrique . See the debian/patches/ directory for the Debian specific changes. COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (C) 1996-2011 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Rsync was originally written by Andrew Tridgell and is currently maintained by Wayne Davison. It has been improved by many developers from around the world. Rsync may be used, modified and redistributed only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, found in the file: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 on Debian systems, or at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html The license of rsync also adds an OpenSSL exemption: REGARDING OPENSSL AND XXHASH In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to dynamically link rsync with the OpenSSL and xxhash libraries when those libraries are being distributed in compliance with their license terms, and to distribute a dynamically linked combination of rsync and these libraries. This is also considered to be covered under the GPL's System Libraries exception.