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+This is a Debian prepackaged version of the perl critic.
+
+This package was put together by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, using
+sources from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/
+
+The following copyright applies to this package:
+
+Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+Some individual modules are individually copyright by other authors/years:
+
+Copyright (C) 2006 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Chris Dolan and Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Chris Dolan. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2006 Chris Dolan. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2007 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2006 Peter Guzis. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2007 Andrew Moore. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2007 Elliot Shank. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2007 Ricardo SIGNES.
+
+Each of these modules are also licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+(Those terms are either of the Artistic license or the GPL; both licenses
+can be found in full in /usr/share/common-licenses/)