This is a Debian prepackaged version of the ticker program. This package was put together by the author of ticker, Joey Hess . No changes need be made to the normal distributed source of ticker for it to compile as a Debian package. By Joey Hess , GPL copyright 1998-2002 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the pdmenu source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. On Debian systems the complete text of the GPL is in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL