This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of watchdog. Watchdog was written by Michael Meskes Copying: Copyright (C) 1996-2020 Michael Meskes, Paul Crawford WATCHDOG 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. WATCHDOG 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-2'. * Michael Meskes Fri 24 Apr 2020 10:29:55 AM CEST Modifications for Debian are copyright (C) 1997-2020 Michael Meskes, (C) 1997-2000 Johnie Ingram, and also released under the terms of the GPL as stated above.