This is the Debian GNU 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 (debian.*
files were originally prepared by Ian Murdock ),
from sources obtained from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.6.tar.gz
Until version 3.1.6 it was maintained by James Troup .
It is now maintained by Arthur Loiret .
Gawk is Copyright (C) 1989-2010 Free Software Foundation.
Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Chris Fearnley.
Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1998-2006 James Troup.
GAWK 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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
GAWK 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 Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
On Debian GNU systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.