This is the Debian Linux prepackaged version of the /proc file
system utilities.  Contributors to the /proc file system utilities
are: Werner Almesberger <almesber@di.epfl.ch>, Roger Binns, Charles
Blake <cblake@ucsd.edu>, Brian Edmonds, David Engel <david@ods.com>,
Larry Greenfield <greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu>, Michael K. Johnson
<johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu>, Branko Lankester <lankeste@fwi.uva.nl>,
Robert Nation <nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com>, Michael Shields
<mjshield@nyx.cs.du.edu>, Henry Ware <al172@yfn.ysu.edu> and Matt
Welsh <mdw@sunsite.unc.edu>. If I left someone out please let me know.

The upstream maintainer of procps is Charles Blake <cblake@ucsd.edu>.

This package was put together by 
Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
There is no source package but the debian one for now.

 ------  LICENSING INFORMATION  --------

1) Most of this package is under the GNU General Public License.
   However, the following parts have a special licensing, which reads as
   follows:

psmisc (fuser, killall and pstree) program code, documentation and
auxiliary programs are
Copyright 1993-1995 Werner Almesberger.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms of parts of or the
whole original or derived work are permitted provided that the
original work is properly attributed to the author. The name of the
author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission. This work
is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties.


2) For the rest of the package the following terms apply:

The programs are copyright by their authors and redistributable under
the terms of the GNU General Public 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; version 2 dated June, 1991.

   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
   along with this program;  if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

On Debian Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.
