This is the Debian prepackaged version of the mirror utility.  
Mirror was written by Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>.

This package was put together by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
from the sources obtained from
	ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/mirror-2.9.tar.gz

The maintainers of this Debian package are:
	1996-2000 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
	2001-xxxx Ian Maclaine-cross <iml@debian.org>

Some small changes were made for this Debian GNU/Linux release; they are 
fully documented in the file /usr/share/doc/mirror/changelog.Debian.gz. 

The following copyright is provided in the file copyright.html:
   
   Copyright © 1990 - 1998 Lee McLoughlin

   Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its
   documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
   provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
   both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
   supporting documentation.

   Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
   distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as
   patches to released version.

   This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

and the following email [ from which some parts have been omitted ] provides 
further clarification:


To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
CC: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>, Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Subject: Re: forwarded message from Adam Heath
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:10:28 +0000

[...]
> I had asked in you in an email [...] if it is okay if Debian distributes a
> version of mirror in the following form:
> 
> mirror_2.9.orig.tar.gz          Original sources, would be md5sum-identical
>                                 to yours but aren't due to the fact that I
>                                 have to re-tar them in a subdirectory to make
>                                 it comply with Debian's packaging tools
> 
> mirror_2.9-1.diff.gz            All of Debian's patches
> 
> mirror_2.9-1.dsc                A textfile with md5sums used to verify these
>                                 files
> 
> mirror_2.9-1_all.deb            The Debian package
> 
> Now, if we are to apply such a patch to the mirror script in the .deb file
> (and hence in the .diff.gz), is that okay with you?  To be clear, this would
> mean that our mirror.pl would be different from your mirror.pl, but the
> changes would be most clearly documented in the .diff.gz and distributed also
> as patches to the released version.  I find your copyright file ambigous, in
> particular the paragraph
> 
>    Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
>    distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as
>    patches to released version.

I think I got the wording from you!  Or at least some other Debian
package you pointed me to!

> 
> Our scheme would be at the same time modified code, and patches to the
> released version.
> 
> I would be glad if you could clarify whether this gets a nod up or down from
> you.

The above scheme is OK with me.

[...]


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