This package was first debianized by Paul Haggart on Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:58:49 -0500. The Debian packaging was rebuilt and updated by Henrique M. Holschuh on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:25:18 -0200, based on Paul's previous work until September 2002. Thanks Paul and Henrique! The package was then maintained by Benjamin Drieu Afterwards it was maintained by Graham Wilson . Now it is maintained by Nico Golde and Héctor García . The lead taken over by Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) on the 03rd of Oct, 2015. It was downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/ Please check the fetchmail homepage at: http://www.fetchmail.info/ The code and docs are patched extensively. All changes from default upstream behaviour are documented in README.Debian. Copyright: The code in the fetchmail distribution is Copyright 1997 by Eric S. Raymond. Portions were also copyrighted by Carl E. Harris, 1993 and 1995. Copyright retained for the purpose of protecting free software redistribution. The support for SMB authentication is copyright by Andrew Tridgell and is under GPL version 2. Tridge has granted a specific exemption for his GPL-licensed code to be linked with non-GPL-compliant code in fetchmail. The relevant files are smb*.[ch] and ntlm.h. The code of interface.c is Copyright (c) 1996,1997 by George M. Sipe. License: The following files are public-domain: acconfig.h, alloca.c, md5c.c, md5.h. The following files are MIT license: rfc822.c,idle.c. The file contrib/runfetchmail is: Copyright (c) 1997 Doug Muth, Wescosville, Pennsylvania USA All rights reserved. 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. The following file is under a variant of the InnerNet Version 2 license (with the advertising clause removed for GPL compatibility) supplied by its author: ipv6_connect.c. The following files are explicitly GPL-licensed: getopt1.c, getopt.c, getopt.h, contrib/getfetchmail.pl,contrib/mailqueue.pl,contrib/PopDel.py,contrib/poptest, contrib/fetchmail-mode.el. All other code in the distribution incorporates the copy of GPL version 2 below by reference: Specific permission is granted for the GPLed code in this distribition to be linked to OpenSSL without invoking GPL clause 2(b). [See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for text of GPL v2]