A bit of history: * tar exists 1979 so neither GNU nor FreeBSD had the first implementation. * pdtar, from 1987 was public domain code and actually the GNU peo

A bit of history: * tar exists 1979 so neither GNU nor FreeBSD had the first implementation. * pdtar, from 1987 was public domain code and actually the GNU people based of this public domain code and put their implementation under the GPL * The current FreeBSD tar implementation is from 2005