Debhelper is written by and copyright 1997-2005 Joey Hess . Increasingly miniscule parts of the code (and certainly my inspiration for the whole thing) came from debmake, by Christoph Lameter . dh_perl is by Brendan O'Dea . dh_python is by Josselin Mouette . dh_installcatalogs is by Adam Di Carlo . dh_scrollkeeper is by Ross Burton . dh_usrlocal is by Andrew Stribblehill . dh_installlogcheck is by Jon Middleton . Some of the dh_md5sums command is from a program by Charles Briscoe-Smith . The Spanish man pages are by Rubén Porras Campo and Rudy Godoy . The copyright of this package is GPL, version 2 or later. Files in the examples/ directory are in the public domain[1]. On Debian systems the complete text of the GPL is in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL [1] Pedants who belive I cannot legally say that code I have written is in the public domain may consider them instead to be licensed as follows: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted under any circumstances. No warranty.