This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU groff document formatting system. GNU groff was written by James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>. This Debian package was previously maintained by Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>. It is now maintained by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>. The original tarball came from <URL:ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff/>: 48fa768dd6fdeb7968041dd5ae8e2b02 groff-1.20.1.tar.gz and was simply renamed to groff_1.20.1.orig.tar.gz. Some patches have been applied to groff outside the debian directory. The Debian diff also appends /usr/share/groff/tmac to the default macro path for compatibility with versions of groff earlier than 1.17 (patch by Colin Watson). ========================================================================= Copyright (C) 1989-2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by James Clark (jjc@jclark.com) This file is part of groff. groff 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. groff 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 as part of the base-files package. ========================================================================= Included in this release are implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, grn, refer, -man, -mdoc, and -ms macros, and drivers for PostScript, TeX dvi format, HP LaserJet 4 printers, Canon CAPSL printers, HTML format (still alpha), and typewriter-like devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley -me macros, an enhanced version of the X11 xditview previewer, and an implementation of the -mm macros contributed by Joergen Haegg (jh@axis.se). xditview is copyrighted by MIT under the usual X terms. /* * Copyright 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or * publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, * written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the * suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" * without express or implied warranty. * * M.I.T. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL M.I.T. * BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION * OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN * CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. * */ ========================================================================= The groff manual is also distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3. On Debian systems, this is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3 as part of the base-files package. However, Debian does not consider this free when the Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts options are used. groff is distributed with a LICENSES file containing the following text (excerpted): The groff program is a free software project. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), version 3 or later. The file COPYING in the top directory of the groff source package contains a copy of the GPL that was downloaded from the GNU web site http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt at 3 jan 2009. All files part of groff are licensed under this version of the GPL (or licenses which are compatible with the GPL). You are free to choose version 3 or any subsequent version of the GPL. I e-mailed the upstream maintainer to clarify the intent of this. Here is the relevant part of the reply: From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> To: cjwatson@debian.org Subject: Re: Clarifying the scope of groff/LICENSE Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:19:52 +0100 (CET) > Since "compatible with the GPL" means to all intents and purposes > "may be distributed under the terms of the GPL", can I correctly > assume that groff/LICENSE grants me permission to distribute > groff/doc/groff.texinfo and groff/doc/pic.ms under the terms of the > GPL? This is the intention, of course. > If not, is the FDL thing from yesteryear going to be resolved some > other way? I just want to make sure that I don't get forced to > remove the groff manual, since that would really diminish the > quality of the Debian package IMHO. Sigh. I haven't found time to revert the FDL stuff back to GPL. It basically affects only Bernd Warken and me, and we have both agreed to return to GPL in case FDL makes problems. (Note that this e-mail predates the current wording in LICENSES.) It is therefore my understanding that the copyright holders of the groff documentation intend it to be distributable under the terms of the GPL version 3 or later. The reference above to the FDL text in /usr/share/common-licenses/ is for information only. ========================================================================= The following material is based on that in the groff LICENSES file, which itself is licensed as follows: Copyright 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. ========================================================================= The grn preprocessor was written by Barry Roitblat <barry@rentonww.com> and David Slattengren <slatteng@Xinet.COM>. These files have been part of the original Berkeley ditroff distribution, without AT&T code, and are in the public domain. ========================================================================= The gxditview output device was based on X11's xditview program and thus has the X licence. Copyright 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. M.I.T. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL M.I.T. BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. ========================================================================= The -mdoc and -me macro sets are distributed under the terms of the BSD licence. Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. [Deleted. See ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change] 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. ========================================================================= The file tmac/hyphen.us is identical to the file hyphen.tex, part of the TeX system written by Donald E. Knuth; the master file can be found at: ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/tex/dist/lib/hyphen.tex It has been renamed for consistency, i.e., to make patterns available under the filenames hyphen.<language>, e.g. hyphen.de or hyphen.uk. Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if the resulting file is not named hyphen.tex. ========================================================================= The file tmac/hyphen.fr contains the same patterns as the file frhyph.tex (for TeX), which can be found at: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/language/hyphenation/frhyph.tex The patterns have been converted to a format groff can understand. frhyph.tex % French hyphenation patterns %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This file is available for free and can used and redistributed asis for free. Modified versions should have another name. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % \message{frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>} ========================================================================= The file tmac/hyphen.sv is identical to the file svhyph.tex, which can be found at: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/language/hyphenation/svhyph.tex Copyright 1994 by Jan Michael Rynning. All rights reserved. This program may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 1999/12/01 or later. ========================================================================= The files tmac/hyphen.det and tmac/hyphen.den contain the same patterns as the files `dehypht-x-2017-03-31.pat' and `dehyphn-x-2017-03-31.pat' (for TeX), respectively, which can be found at: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl The patterns have been converted to latin-1. Copyright (C) 1988,1991 Rechenzentrum der Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum [german hyphen patterns] Copyright (C) 1993,1994,1999 Bernd Raichle/DANTE e.V. [macros, adaption for TeX 2] Copyright (C) 1998--2001 Walter Schmidt [adaption to new German orthography] ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTICE: This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or any later version. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= The file tmac/hyphen.cs contains the same patterns as the file czhyphen.tex (for TeX), which can be found in the archive: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/macros/cstex/base/csplain.tar.gz The patterns have been converted to a format groff can understand. This 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 file 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ========================================================================= doc/meintro.me and doc/meref.me are distributed under the following terms: Copyright (c) 1986 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.