Netcat was created in the year 1995 and was developed until first months of the 1996, when it reached version 1.10, released by Avian Research (avian.org). This is the traditional netcat, Copyright: © 1995-1996, Avian Research The following permission statement is excerpted from `netcat.blurb': Netcat and the associated package is a product of Avian Research, and is freely available in full source form with no restrictions save an obligation to give credit where due. There is also a development branch (called "GNU Netcat") available. It was started by Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net>, to improve portability, usability and features design. Official project homepage: http://netcat.sourceforge.net.