This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged Apache::DBI. This is a set of perl modules which provide connections from a mod_perl enabled Apache to a DBI database. This package was put together by Michael Alan Dorman . Upstream source can be downloaded from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-DBI/ AUTHORS: (from included docs) Philip M. Gollucci is currently packaging new releases. Ask Bjoern Hansen packaged a large number of releases. Edmund Mergl was the original author of Apache::DBI. It is now supported and maintained by the modperl mailinglist, COPYRIGHT: (deduced, as there are not clear copyright statemets in the source) Edmund Mergl, Ask Bjoern Hansen, Philip M. Gollucci and numerous modperl mailing list contributors. LICENSE: The Apache::DBI module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Perl license is: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' and the Artistic Licence in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.