This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU
Readline library.

This package was put together by Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>, derived
from the bash package by Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>, from the GNU sources at

	ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.0.tar.gz.

Upstream Authors:

    Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
    Jeff Solomon <jsolomon@stanford.edu> (examples/excallback.c)
    Harold Levy <Harold.Levy@synopsys.com> (examples/rl-fgets.c)
    Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (examples/rlfe)
    Michael Schroeder <mlschroe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (examples/rlfe)
    Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

Copyright:

    Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Copyright (C) 1999 Jeff Solomon (examples/excallback.c)
    Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Harold Levy (examples/rl-fgets.c)
    Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert (examples/rlfe)
    Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Michael Schroeder (examples/rlfe)
    Copyright (C) 1987 Oliver Laumann (examples/rlfe)

License:

    Readline 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.

    This package 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 Readline.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

    examples/rl-fgets.c: GPL v2 or later.
    examples/rlfe: GPL v2 or later.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

The documentation files doc/*.texi and derived .info, .html, .ps and .pdf
files are:

    Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
    document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
    Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
    Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and
    no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the
    section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
			      
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Free Documentation License
can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL'.

The Debian packaging is:

    Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

and is licensed under the GPL version 3, 
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
