dh-make-perl was created by Paolo Molaro. It is currently maintained by Gunnar Wolf and others, under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group Copyright (c) 2000,2001 Paolo Molaro (c) 2002,2003,2008 Ivan Kohler (c) 2003,2004 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt (c) 2005-2007 Gunnar Wolf (c) 2006 Frank Lichtenheld (c) 2007-2008 Gregor Herrmann (c) 2007-2008 Damyan Ivanov You can do anything with it according to the GPLv2: look in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 on your Debian system.