Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: Fuse Upstream-Contact: Dobrica Pavlinusic Source: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Fuse/ Files: * Copyright: 2001-2011 Mark Glines 2001-2011 Dobrica Pavlinusic Richard Dawe Mark Wilkinson Csaba Henk Vladimir V. Kolpakov Andrew Chadwick Chris Dolan Reuben Thomas Jason Long Justin Fletcher Derrik Pates Daniel Frett Alex Sudakov Bojan Petrovic License: LGPL-2.1+ Comment: jaslong from AUTHORS is well known cpan contributor Jason Long. Copyright years according to git tree commits. Upstream clarify the license terms by git commit c352cd3e4bf245da980c2e8876b6b9b509b9f168. This commit will be in version 0.15 (see https://github.com/dpavlin/perl-fuse/commit/c352cd3e4bf245da980c2e8876b6b9b509b9f168) This is compatible with README that states: This is contributed to the FUSE project by Mark Glines , and is therefore subject to the same license and copyright as FUSE itself. Please see the AUTHORS and COPYING files from the FUSE distribution for more information. According to http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/fuse/current/copyright libfuse is licencied under LGPL2+ Files: debian/* Copyright: 2006-2009, Romain Beauxis 2011, Bastien Roucariès License: LGPL-2.1+ License: LGPL-2.1+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public license can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1