This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of Gawk, a pattern
scanning and processing language.  Gawk was written by Diane Barlow
Close, Arnold D. Robbins, Paul H. Rubin and Richard Stallman.

This package was put together by Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> (debian.*
files were originally prepared by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>),
from sources obtained from:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk-3.0.3.tar.gz

It is currently being maintained by James Troup <awkmaint@nocrew.org>.

Gawk is Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-1997 Free Software Foundation.
Modifications for Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Chris Fearnley.

  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 dated June, 1991.

  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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.