This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU
Readline library.

This package was put together by Matthias Klose , derived
from the bash package by Guy Maor , from the GNU sources at

ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.0.tar.gz.

Upstream Authors:

Chet Ramey
Jeff Solomon (examples/excallback.c)
Harold Levy (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Juergen Weigert (examples/rlfe)
Michael Schroeder (examples/rlfe)
Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

Copyright:

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999 Jeff Solomon (examples/excallback.c)
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Harold Levy (examples/rl-fgets.c)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Michael Schroeder (examples/rlfe)
Copyright (C) 1987 Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

License:

Readline 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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This package 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 Readline. If not, see .

examples/rl-fgets.c: GPL v2 or later.
examples/rlfe: GPL v2 or later.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

The Debian packaging is:

Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Matthias Klose

and is licensed under the GPL version 3,
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.