This is the Debian-Linux prepackaged version of the Linux console font and keytable utilities. loadkeys, dumpkeys and showkey were derived from Risto Kankkunen's kbd-0.81. The font loading code goes back to the codepage package by Joel Hoffman (joel@wam.umd.edu). (He tells me that the original reference is: "From: p. 307 of _Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems_ by Richard Wilton. 1987. Microsoft Press".) The kernel and user interface for the font loading closely follows Eugene Crosser's intl_con package. [Similar things were done earlier by Jerry Kaidor (tr2!jerry@abekas.com, jkaidor@synoptics.com) : fontpak, H. Peter Anvin (hpa@nwu.edu) and Pavel Zaboj (xzaboj@vse.cs). Their code was not used, but the Latin-1 *.psf fonts were developed by H. Peter Anvin, and the Latin-2 ones by Pavel Zaboj.] The current maintainer is Andries Brouwer . This package was put together by Denis Barbier , from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/ Packaging is copyright 2004 Denis Barbier copyright 2004 Wartan Hachaturow copyright 1999-2001 Yann Dirson copyright 2001 Alcove http://www.alcove.fr/ The file kbdrate.c is Copyright (C) 1992 Rickard E. Faith. The files dumpkeys.c loadkeys.y analyze.l ksyms.c ksyms.h showkey.c keymaps.5 loadkeys.1 dumpkeys.1 showkey.1 are Copyright (C) 1993 Risto Kankkunen. The files setfont.c setfont.8 mapscrn.c mapscrn.8 (and changes to loadkeys.y) are Copyright (C) 1993 Eugene G. Crosser. The files psfaddtable.1 psfgettable.1 psfstriptable.1 are Copyright (C) 1994 H. Peter Anvin. The files chvt.c clrunimap.c deallocvt.c fgconsole.c findfile.c getfd.c getkeycodes.c getunimap.c kbd_mode.c loadunimap.c psffontop.c psfxtable.c resizecons.c screendump.c setkeycodes.c setleds.c setmetamode.c setvesablank.c showconsolefont.c spawn_console.c spawn_login.c chvt.1 deallocvt.1 kbd_mode.1 setleds.1 setmetamode.1 getkeycodes.8 loadunimap.8 resizecons.8 setkeycodes.8 kbd.FAQ.* (and changes to earlier mentioned programs) are Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Andries E. Brouwer. All files in this package may be freely copied under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2, or at your option any later version - except possibly for the restrictions mentioned in the directory consolefonts. This license may be found on Debian GNU/Linux systems as `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.