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This package was debianized by Hakan Ardo hakan@debian.org on
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:08:40 +0200.

It was downloaded from:
  http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/libc/

Copyright:

The copyright picture of those libs is quite complictaed. Here's how the
upstream author Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@linux.org.pl> looks at it:

> It's in the source files, but not all of them.
> 
> As far as I am concerned, I try to keep avr-libc as free as possible
> (the GPL or even LGPL is too restrictive for many embedded applications).
> The following copyright is in a few of the source files:
> 
>    Copyright (C) 1999 Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@linux.org.pl>
> 
>    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
>    its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
>    without any conditions or restrictions.  This software is provided
>    "as is" without express or implied warranty.
> 
> (I'm not a lawyer, so if anything needs to be changed, please let me know.)
> 
> But some files were written by others:
> 
> Michael Stumpf <Michael.Stumpf@t-online.de> wrote the "fplib" floating point
> library.  As I understand from asking the author, it is under the GPL.
> I will try to contact him and ask if it's OK to add a special exception
> as in libgcc (GPL, but OK to link with code compiled by GCC).  Until then,
> linking with libm.a may make the application fall under the GPL.
> 
> A few *.c files have BSD copyright.  There are alternative versions under
> the LGPL (borrowed from glibc I think) but these are not built by default.
> 
> Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru> wrote a few example files, which are
> under the GPL (but are not part of the library itself), and first version
> of gcrt1.S (C startup) but it has been changed a lot since then so there
> isn't much of the original code anymore.  There is no copyright info,
> but my understanding (from what we agreed on in crt1.s for the old AVA
> assembler) was GPL with special exception as in libgcc (OK to link with
> code compiled by GCC with no restrictions).  In any case, my changes are
> under the "almost public domain" copyright mentioned earlier.