This is the debian package for the Lingua-Stem-Snowball module. It was created by Dominic Hargreaves using dh-make-perl. It was downloaded from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Stem-Snowball/ The upstream author is: Marvin Humphrey . Copyright 2004-2008 Marvin Humphrey, Fabien Potencier, Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev. Copyright 2004-2008 This software may be freely copied and distributed under the same terms and conditions as Perl. Snowball files and stemmers are covered by the BSD license: "All the software given out on this Snowball site is covered by the BSD License (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html ), with Copyright (c) 2001, Dr Martin Porter, and (for the Java developments) Copyright (c) 2002, Richard Boulton. Essentially, all this means is that you can do what you like with the code, except claim another Copyright for it, or claim that it is issued under a different license. The software is also issued without warranties, which means that if anyone suffers through its use, they cannot come back and sue you. You also have to alert anyone to whom you give the Snowball software to the fact that it is covered by the BSD license. We have not bothered to insert the licensing arrangement into the text of the Snowball software." Perl is distributed under your choice of the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL', the Artistic Licence in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic', and the BSD license in `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD`. The Debian packaging is (C) 2008-2009, Dominic Hargreaves and is licensed under the same terms as the software itself (see above).