The current development version can be downloaded from the SVN repository at svn://svn.debian.org/devscripts/trunk or browsed online from http://svn.debian.org/ This is a package written originally by Christoph Lameter and extensively modified by Julian Gilbey . Many of the scripts were originally written by other people. Please see the individual files (scripts and manpages) for more information. Most of the Devscripts::* Perl modules are from the deprecated dpkg-perl package, copyright (C) 1997 Klee Dienes With the exceptions listed below, the whole package is copyright under the GPL, version 2 or later. - debdiff and nmudiff are released under version 2 (only) of the GPL. - The Perl module DB_File::Lock used by bts is copyright under the same terms as Perl, that is: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl. - wnpp-alert is in the public domain On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' and the Artistic Licence in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.