This is the Debian package of Lintian, the Debian package checker.
The latest version of Lintian can always be found at:
	http://lintian.debian.org/

Lintian was designed and written by Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman.
The package was previously maintained by Darren Benham,
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry and Josip Rodin.

It is now maintained by a group of people, with changes noted by initials
in the changelog.  Key to frequent committers:

 JvW == Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
 FL  == Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
 HE  == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>
 CW  == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
 RA  == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
 TK  == Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
 ADB == Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
 JP  == Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org>
 JA  == Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
 RG  == Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
 NT  == Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
 JW  == Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>

Contact address is <lintian-maint@debian.org>.

Lintian is maintained in git.  The current development version may
be checked out from:
	git://git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git

Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman
Portions Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Joey Hess
Portions Copyright (C) 1999 Darren Benham
Portions Copyright (C) 2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Colin Watson
Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Josip Rodin
Portions Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Denis Barbier
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Marc Brockschmidt
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Frank Lichtenheld
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Portions Copyright (C) 2005 René van Bevern
Portions Copyright (C) 2006 Adeodato Simó
Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Russ Allbery
Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Patrick Schoenfeld
Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Niko Tyni
Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Raphael Geissert
Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Adam D. Barratt
Portions Copyright (C) 2009 Stéphane Glondu
Portions Copyright (C) 2010 Raphaël Hertzog
Portions Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Niels Thykier
Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Gerfried Fuchs
Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Jakub Wilk

This program is free software; you may 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, or (at your option)
any later version.

This 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.

A copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 is available as
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
or at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
