This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU Make. GNU Make was written by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. This package was put together by Ian Murdock , from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files The package has since changed maintainers, the current maintainer being Manoj Srivastava . GNU Make is Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 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; 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. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. A copy of the GNU General Public License is also available at . You may also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Manoj Srivastava