This is a Debian prepackaged version of the leafnode news server. This package was put together by Joey Hess and was maintained by Mark Brown . It is currently maintained by Robert Grimm . It also includes the touch_newsgroup script written by Jim Nicholson . The sources were downloaded from: Leafnode: http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/ touch_newsgroups: http://www.minusen.force9.co.uk/utilities/ The following copyright applies to Leafnode: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen and copyright 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949. Modified by Cornelius Krasel and Randolf Skerka . Copyright of the modifications 1997. Modified by Kent Robotti . Copyright of the modifications 1998. Modified by Markus Enzenberger . Copyright of the modifications 1998. Modified by Cornelius Krasel . Copyright of the modifications 1998, 1999. Modified by Ralf Wildenhues . Copyright of the modifications 2002. Modified by Jonathan Larmour . Copyright of the modifications 2002. Modified by Andreas Meininger . Copyright of the modifications 2002. Modified by Mark Brown . Copyright of the modifications 2002. Modified by Matthias Andree . Copyright of the modifications 2000 - 2008. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless stated otherwise, these conditions apply: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parts of this Software are distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. On Debian systems it can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ getaline.c is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version, with the following addition: As special permission, when linked against the leafnode package, leafnode programs themselves need not be put under the GPL. On Debian systems it can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following copyright applies to touch_newsgroups: Copyright © 1999 Jim Nicholson . touch_newsgroups is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian systems it can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.