Monotone is a collective work, Copyright 2002-2010 by its development team. Copyright holders are listed in /usr/share/doc/monotone/AUTHORS.gz. The source file was downloaded from http://www.monotone.ca/downloads/ Upstream authors are reachable at monotone-devel@nongnu.org This package was debianized by Tomas Fasth on 2005-04-12, adopted by Shaun Jackman on 2006-07-24, and adopted again by a team reachable at monotone-debian@nongnu.org on 2007-07-10. Overall license: This package 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. This package 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. The monotone sources contain some files developed by third parties, that may qualify as "independent and separate works in themselves" for the purpose of GPLv2 section 2, if separated from monotone itself. Upstream provides a comprehensive statement of authorship and licensing for these files; please see /usr/share/doc/monotone/AUTHORS.gz. The directory /usr/share/doc/monotone/contrib contains files which are included in the upstream source distribution, and may be useful in conjunction with monotone proper, but are not considered part of monotone. Upstream does not provide definitive copyright and licensing information for all these files, but asserts that "to the best of our collective knowledge, all files are available under terms compatible with the GPL version 2 (*not* necessarily later versions)."