* AUTHORS: Remove unnecessary information. Just list the

principal authors.
* THANKS: Remove info duplicated from AUTHORS.

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stripping and name suffix normalization.

AUTHORS

@@ -1,34 +1,15 @@
 Authors of GNU tar.
 
-The following contributions warranted legal paper exchanges with the
-Free Software Foundation.  Also see files ChangeLog and THANKS.
-
-TAR     Sergey Poznyakoff 2003-10
-Assigns his past and future changes.
-
-TAR	Paul Eggert	2000-10
-Assigns his past and future changes.
-
-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.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-09-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	* AUTHORS: Remove unnecessary information.  Just list the
+	principal authors.
+	* THANKS: Remove info duplicated from AUTHORS.
+
 2007-08-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	Don't include <getline.h>.  No longer needed.
@@ -44,13 +50,13 @@
 
 	* bootstrap (symlink_to_gnulib): Make sure the target directory
 	exists and create it if it does not.
-	
+
 	* doc/tar.texi: Fix a typo.
 
 2007-06-28  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
 	* bootstrap: Update for the change of the TP URL
-	
+
 2007-06-27  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
         Relicense under GPLv3
@@ -72,7 +78,7 @@
 	* doc/Makefile.am (tar_TEXINFOS): Add tar-snapshot-edit.texi
 	* doc/tar-snapshot-edit.texi: New file
 	* doc/tar.texi (Fixing Snapshot Files): New appendix
-	
+
 	* scripts/tar-snapshot-edit: New file
 	* tests/extrac07.at: Add back write permissions on dir
 
@@ -92,21 +98,21 @@
 
 	* doc/tar.texi (Operation Summary): Restore alphabetical order of
 	the options.
-	
+
 2007-06-02  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
 	Fix bug, introduced on 2007-03-30.
-	
+
 	* src/common.h (xform_type): New data type
 	(transform_member_name): Last argument is of xform_type type
 	All callers updated
 
 	* src/extract.c: Update calls to transform_member_name
 	* src/list.c (decode_xform): Exempt symbolic links from component
-	stripping and name suffix normalization.  
+	stripping and name suffix normalization.
 
 	* tests/extrac07.at: Update
-		
+
 2007-05-30  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
 	* src/xheader.c (decx): Unknown pax keywords produce a warning,

THANKS

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 GNU tar THANKS file
 
-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, Paul Eggert and Sergey Poznyakoff.
+Please see the AUTHORS file for the list of principal authors.
 
 Many people further contributed to GNU tar by reporting problems,
 suggesting various improvements or submitting actual code.  Here is a