This is the Debian prepackaged version of the GNU gettext utilities. GNU gettext was written by Ulrich Drepper . emacs po-mode was written by François Pinard . This package was first created by Erick Branderhorst , and is currently maintained by Santiago Vila . This release has been built using the sources from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz The changes were fairly minimal, and consisted solely of adding various debian/* files to the distribution. Copyright and license for the gettext tools: Copyright (C) 1995-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. 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. Copyright and license for the libintl library: Copyright (C) 1995-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. 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 Library General Public License for more details. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL', and the complete text of the GNU Library General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.