This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU
Readline library.

This package was put together by Matthias Klose <[email protected]>, derived
from the bash package by Guy Maor <[email protected]>, from the GNU sources at

ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz.

Upstream Authors:

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Jeff Solomon <[email protected]> (examples/excallback.c)
Harold Levy <[email protected]> (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Juergen Weigert <[email protected]> (examples/rlfe)
Michael Schroeder <[email protected]> (examples/rlfe)
Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

Copyright:

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999 Jeff Solomon (examples/excallback.c)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Harold Levy (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Michael Schroeder (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1987 Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

License:

The GNU Readline Library 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, or (at
your option) any later version.

The GNU Readline Library 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 with
your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with
the Debian GNU/Linux bash source package as the file COPYING. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
Boston, A 02110-1301, USA.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

The Debian packaging is:

Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Matthias Klose <[email protected]>

and is licensed under the GPL version 2,
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.