This package was originally written by Mike Westerhof for SunOS. Bdale Garbee ported it to HP-UX and BSD/OS. Ron Atkinson and John Paul Morrison provided the tweaks for Linux. The package is currently maintained by Bdale Garbee, both as "upstream maintainer" and as a Debian package. The original copyright from Michael states: Copyright 1991, Michael Westerhof, Sun Microsystems, Inc. This software may be freely used, distributed, or modified, providing this header is not removed. This version is a derivative of Michael's work developed and maintained by Bdale Garbee with input from several others. It is licensed for distribution under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. A copy of the GPL is provided on Debian systems in the /usr/share/common-licenses directory.