This is the Debian prepackaged version of Free recode, a program that converts files between character sets and usages. Free recode was written by François Pinard . This package was first put together by Klee Dienes . It is currently maintained by Santiago Vila , from sources obtained from: https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/recode/recode-3.6.tar.gz The changes were fairly minimal, and consisted solely of adding various debian/* files to the distribution. Copyright: The entire recode package is Copyright (C) the Free Software Foundation, with the exception of ansi2knr.c, which is Copyright (C) Aladdin Enterprises. The program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License: 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, or (at your option) any later version. The library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License: This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL', and the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.