This is the Debian GNU/Linux version of the MIME::Tools Perl module. Upstream authors (taken from Changelog, plus copyright notices): Eryq David F. Skoll Dave O'Neill Julian Field Files: * Copyright: © 2004 by Roaring Penguin Software Inc (www.roaringpenguin.com) © 1998, 1999 by ZeeGee Software Inc (www.zeegee.com). © 1996 by Eryq. All rights reserved. License: Artistic | GPL-1+, Other All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See the COPYING file in the distribution for details. . It is supossed that some files that lack a proper copyright notice and/or license statement are works of the same authors and licensed under the same term. . The files without any author, copyright or license statement are: t/Globby.pm lib/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm lib/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm . These files have author but not copyright nor license: lib/MIME/Field/ContType.pm lib/MIME/Field/ConTraEnc.pm lib/MIME/Field/ContDisp.pm lib/MIME/WordDecoder.pm . Also, there's lib/MIME/Decoder/UU.pm: "UU-decoding code lifted from "uuexplode", a Perl script by an unknown author..." and that script can not even be found in the net. Files: inc/* Copyright: Copyright 2002 - 2008 by Brian Ingerson, Audrey Tang and Adam Kennedy. License: GPL-1+ | Artistic This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Note: these files are from Module::Install (libmodule-install-perl) Files: debian/* Copyright: © 2006-2008 Debian Perl Group © 2006 Alexis Sukrieh © 2006 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh © 2006-2004 Matthias Klose © 1999-2004 Stephen Zander © 1999 Raphael Hertzog © 1997, 1998 Dirk Eddelbuettel License: other This package has been through multiple maintainers, and it is supposed that all of them had chosen a license compatible with upstream's license. Perl is distributed under either the Artistic licence or the GPL. The full text of the GPL is available on Debian systems in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. The full text of the Artistic Licence is available on Debian systems in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.