This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the Debian Base System Miscellaneous files. These files were written by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> and Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>. This package was first put together by Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>, from his own sources. The GNU Public Licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses were taken from ftp.gnu.org and are copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. The Artistic License in /usr/share/common-licenses is the one coming from Perl and its SPDX name is "Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)". Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Software in the Public Interest. 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.