This is the Debian prepackaged version of Digest::Nilsimsa, a wrapper written by Chad Norwood around a C implementation of the nilsimsa algorithm written by cmeclax. This package was first put together by Santiago Vila , who currently maintains it. The source code was taken from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/V/VI/VIPUL/Digest-Nilsimsa-0.06.tar.gz The only change for the Debian package was the addition of the debian/* files. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 cmeclax (original C program). Copyright (C) 2002 Chad Norwood (modifications and the perl module). 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; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.