This is Debian GNU's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU DBM library. This package was put together by James Troup from the GNU sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz It was previosly maintained by Ray Dassen , Mark W. Eichin and Christoph Lameter . Program Copyright 1990, 1991, 1993 (C) Free Software Foundation, Inc. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1995 Ray Dassen. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Mark Eichin and Christoph Lameter. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1998-2006 James Troup. 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, or (at your option) any later version. 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 with your Debian GNU system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the Debian GNU gdbm source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Manual (gdbm.info) Copyright (C) 1989-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the results, provided the printed document carries copying permission notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph (this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual). Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation.