This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of dvdtape, a tool written by Adam J. Richter to create the metadata needed when mastering DVDs for manufacture. Copyright 1999, 2000 Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. dvdtape may be copied under the terms and conditions of version 2 of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation (Cambridge, MA, USA). On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License Version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 . This package was put together by Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ since the original upstream sources at Yggdrasil no longer seem available.