This package was debianized by Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux@debian.org> on
Mon,  8 Jul 2002 13:17:42 +0200.

The source can be downloaded from http://www.bitlbee.org/

Authors: Wilmer van der Gaast, Sjoerd Hemminga, Jelmer Vernooij,
         Maurits Dijkstra, Geert Mulders, Miklos Vajna and others.

Mainly Copyright 2002-2014 Wilmer van der Gaast.


Bits of third party code, also (L)GPLed:
* protocols/yahoo/ is libyahoo2 <http://libyahoo2.sf.net/>.
* Some parts (though there is very little left at this point) are borrowed
  from Gaim (version 0.58), now known as Pidgin <http://www.pidgin.im/>.

Other license (but GPL-compatible):
* lib/json.[ch] is from <https://github.com/udp/json-parser> and licensed
  under the modified BSD license.


BitlBee License:

============================================================================
  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 of the License, 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 with
  the Debian GNU/Linux distribution in file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2;
  if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, 
  Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
============================================================================


Portions (mostly protocols/twitter and protocols/oscar) are licenced under
the LGPL:

============================================================================
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version
  2.1.

  This library 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
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
  along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
  Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
============================================================================


The SGML-formatted documentation is written by Jelmer Vernooij
<jelmer@samba.org> under the GNU Free Documentation License:

============================================================================
Copyright (c)  2002-2012 Jelmer Vernooij, Wilmer van der Gaast.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled `GNU
Free Documentation License''.
============================================================================