This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of freeciv. Freeciv was first packaged for Debian by Karl Sackett , on Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:37:50 -0600. Richard Braakman took over the package at version 1.0k-1, on 6 Nov 1997 21:46:14 +0100. Lalo Martins then took over at version 1.6.3-1, on Sat, 20 Jun 1998 05:58:41 -0300. Jules Bean became Freeciv's new maintainer at version 1.11.4-1, on Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:25:48 +0100. Jordi Mallach has been maintaining Freeciv packages since Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:56:48 +0100, when version 1.14.0 was released. Freeciv has been maintained by the Debian Games Team since Thu Dec 4 23:05:24 2008 -0500, starting with 2.1.5-3. Other people have helped Freeciv in the past, outstanding Torsten Landschoff and Filip Van Raemdonck . The freeciv sources were obtained from: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/stable/ For more information see: http://www.freeciv.org/ Freeciv is Copyright (C) 1996 by A. Kjeldberg, L. Gregersen, and P. Unold. Freeciv 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. Freeciv 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 version 2 with your Debian GNU/Linux system as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, or with the freeciv source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Some parts of the code in client/gui-sdl/graphics.h, client/gui-sdl/SDL_rotozoom.c and client/gui-sdl/SDL_rotozoom.h come from SDL_gfx-2.0, which is licenced under the LGPL. The complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1. OpenQuartz (OpenQuartz.sourceforge.net) material is licensed under the GPL. Paroxysm material is in the public domain and is distributed by OpenQuartz too.