This is a Debian prepackaged version of the leafnode news server. This package was put together by Joey Hess and is currently maintained by Mark Brown . It also includes the touch_newsgroup script written by Jim Nicholson downloaded from: The sources were downloaded from: Leafnode: http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html touch_newsgroups: http://www.minusen.force9.co.uk/utilities/ The following copyright applies to Leafnode: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen and copyright 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949. Modified by Cornelius Krasel and Randolf Skerka . Copyright of the modifications 1997. Modified by Kent Robotti . Copyright of the modifications 1998. Modified by Markus Enzenberger . Copyright of the modifications 1998. Modified by Cornelius Krasel . Copyright of the modifications 1998. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ touch_newsgroups is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, on Debian systems can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL .