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This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU tar.  GNU
tar, heavily based on John Gilmore's public domain version of tar,
was originally written by Graham Todd.  It is now maintained by
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>.

This package is maintained for Debian by Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>, and
was built from the sources found at:

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

More recently, I'm directly using the upstream source repository at 

	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git

GNU tar is 

   Copyright (C) 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
   2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   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 3, or (at your option) any later
   version.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

The Debian packaging is 

   Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>

   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, or (at your option) any later
   version.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

The above notice from https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/t/tar/tar_1.30+dfsg-6_copyright has public-domain detected

      "license_expressions": [
        "public-domain",
        "gpl-3.0-plus",
        "gpl-2.0-plus"
      ],

The public-domain is detected from based on John Gilmore's public domain version of tar,. Not sure can the tool be smart enough to tell public-domain is actually not the license for this package.

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