This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of Joshua M. Yelon's memstat, for a long time maintained upstream by Bernd Eckenfels and now maintained by Michael Meskes . This package was put together by me, Bernd Eckenfels , from the sources, which I obtained from http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/~jyelon/software.html The debian/* Files are based on Ian Jacksons hello Package. All patches by me are subject to the GPL. Original Copyright from memstat.c: * This software copyright 1997 Joshua M. Yelon. * Distribution subject to the terms of the GPL. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.