Debhelper is written by and copyright 1997-2002 Joey Hess . Increasinly miniscule parts of the code (and certainly my inspiration from the whole thing) came from debmake, by Christoph Lameter . Some of the dh_md5sums command is from a program by Charles Briscoe-Smith . The copyright of this package is GPL, version 2 or later. Files in the examples/ directory are in the public domain.