This is the Debian GNU prepackaged version of Gawk, a pattern scanning and processing language. Gawk was written by Diane Barlow Close, Arnold D. Robbins, Paul H. Rubin and Richard Stallman. This package was put together by Chris Fearnley (debian.* files were originally prepared by Ian Murdock ), from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.0.tar.gz It is currently being maintained by James Troup . Gawk is Copyright (C) 1989-2001 Free Software Foundation. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Chris Fearnley. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1998-2001 James Troup. This program 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; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA On Debian GNU systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.