This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU automake.
automake was primarily written by David Mackenzie and Tom Tromey.


This package was put together by Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/

Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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, 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 St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301, USA.

Originally written by David Mackenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
Perl reimplementation by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>.


On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.