This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the "man_db" manual page browser utility package, version 2.5.2. It was originally written by Graeme Wilford , with documentation reorganized by Nils Magnus . Until 2001 it was maintained by the late Fabrizio Polacco . It is now maintained by Colin Watson . The original upstream sources as maintained by Graeme Wilford are available at ftp://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/wilf/man_db/. The current upstream source is held in Bazaar at http://man-db.nongnu.org/, and future upstream releases will take place from there. Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 John W. Eaton. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Markus Armbruster. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Graeme W. Wilford. (Wilf.) Copyright (C) 1995 Carl Edman. Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Fabrizio Polacco. Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Colin Watson. Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. man-db 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. man-db 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with man-db; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA In addition, man-db incorporates Gnulib, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation and others. Note that much of Gnulib is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. This means that, although man-db's own source code is licensed under GPL v2 or later, the work as a whole falls under the terms of the GPL v3 or later. Unless you take special pains to remove the GPL v3 portions, you must therefore follow the terms and conditions of the GPL v3 or later when distributing man-db. On Debian and Debian-based systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License version 3 is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.