This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU
Readline library.
This package was put together by Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>, derived
from the bash package by Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>, from the GNU sources at
ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.0.tar.gz.
Upstream Authors:
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Jeff Solomon <jsolomon@stanford.edu> (examples/excallback.c)
Harold Levy <Harold.Levy@synopsys.com> (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (examples/rlfe)
Michael Schroeder <mlschroe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (examples/rlfe)
Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)
Copyright:
Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999 Jeff Solomon (examples/excallback.c)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Harold Levy (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Michael Schroeder (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1987 Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)
License:
Readline 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 3 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 Readline. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
examples/rl-fgets.c: GPL v2 or later.
examples/rlfe: GPL v2 or later.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
The documentation files doc/*.texi and derived .info, .html, .ps and .pdf
files are:
Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and
no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Free Documentation License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL'.
The Debian packaging is:
Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
and is licensed under the GPL version 3,
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.