This package was first debianized by Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org> on
Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:58:49 -0500.

The Debian packaging was rebuilt and updated by Henrique M. Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:25:18 -0200, based on Paul's previous
work until September 2002. Thanks Paul and Henrique!

The package was then maintained by Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>
Afterwards it was maintained by Graham Wilson <graham@debian.org>.

Now it is maintained by Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>
and Héctor García <hector@debian.org>.
The lead taken over by Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> on the
03rd of Oct, 2015.

It was downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/

Please check the fetchmail homepage at: http://www.fetchmail.info/

The code and docs are patched extensively. All changes from default upstream
behaviour are documented in README.Debian.

Copyright:

The code in the fetchmail distribution is Copyright 1997 by Eric S. Raymond.
Portions were also copyrighted by Carl E. Harris, 1993 and 1995.  Copyright
retained for the purpose of protecting free software redistribution.

The support for SMB authentication is copyright by Andrew Tridgell and
is under GPL version 2.  Tridge has granted a specific exemption for
his GPL-licensed code to be linked with non-GPL-compliant code in
fetchmail.  The relevant files are smb*.[ch] and ntlm.h.

The code of interface.c is Copyright (c) 1996,1997 by George M. Sipe.

License:

The following files are public-domain: acconfig.h, alloca.c, md5c.c, md5.h.

The following files are MIT license: rfc822.c,idle.c.

The file contrib/runfetchmail is:
Copyright (c) 1997 Doug Muth, Wescosville, Pennsylvania USA
All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

The following file is under a variant of the InnerNet Version 2 license
(with the advertising clause removed for GPL compatibility) supplied
by its author: ipv6_connect.c.

The following files are explicitly GPL-licensed: getopt1.c, getopt.c, getopt.h,
contrib/getfetchmail.pl,contrib/mailqueue.pl,contrib/PopDel.py,contrib/poptest,
contrib/fetchmail-mode.el.

All other code in the distribution incorporates the copy of GPL version 2 
below by reference:

Specific permission is granted for the GPLed code in this distribition to
be linked to OpenSSL without invoking GPL clause 2(b).

[See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for text of GPL v2]

