This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of The DICT Development Group's (www.dict.org) dictd distribution, containing client/server software implementing the Dictionary Server Protocol, as described in RFC 2229. The programs that make up the dictd distribution were written by Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org). This package was constructed by Kirk Hilliard from sources obtained from http://sf.net/projects/dict, and was based on the original Debian dict packages built and maintained until June 2004 by Robert D. Hilliard . License: Copyright 1997-2002 Rickard E. Faith (faith@dict.org) Copyright 2002-2007 Aleksey Cheusov (vle@gmx.net) This package 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 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 this package; 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 GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. The several dictionary databases that are available for use with this software (which are not included in this package) each have their own copyright and licensing provisions, which differ from these. Consult the copyright and licensing information at the top of each database file for more specific information. Kirk Hilliard