This is the Debian prepackaged version of GNU inetutils.
GNU inetutils were written by a lot of people.

This package was put together by
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
from sources obtained from:

    <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/>

The source code is covered by the following copyrights and licenses:

* The doc/ directory was removed from the original tarball, and the
  tarball repacked as it contained GFDL'd material, and a non-free RFC.

* Files utmp_{login,init}.{c,h} under libinetutils:

    Copyright © 1995 Wietse Venema

  under the following license:

    This material was originally written and compiled by Wietse Venema at
    Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1990, 1991,
    1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
    provided that this entire copyright notice is duplicated in all such
    copies.

    This software is provided "as is" and without any expressed or implied
    warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of
    merchantibility and fitness for any particular purpose.

* Files under gwhois/ directory:

    Copyright © 1999 Marco d'Itri

  under the following license:

    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; version 2.

    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
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

* Some additional files (esp. Makefiles), are copyrigthed by:

    Copyright © 1985-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2007 Simon Josefsson

  under the following license:

    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
    of the License, 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
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 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-2'.

* Most source files:

    Copyright © 1985-1988, 1990, 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Copyright © 1983-1985, 1988-1994, 1996, 2000, 2002
              The Regents of the University of California.

  under the BSD license. On Debian systems, the complete text of the BSD
  license can be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD'.