This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of libwww-perl. This is a set of perl modules which provide access to the world wide web via HTTP and HTML tools. Original sources can be found at http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/ This package was put together by Michael Alan Dorman , following the example of Rob Browning . It was maintained also by John Goerzen , Brendan O'Dea and Jay Bonci . Current maintainer is Debian Perl Group UPSTREAM AUTHORS, according to the AUTHORS file: Adam Newby Albert Dvornik Alexandre Duret-Lutz Andreas Gustafsson Andreas König Andreas König Andrew Pimlott Andy Lester Ben Coleman Benjamin Low Ben Low Ben Tilly Blair Zajac Blair Zajac Bob Dalgleish BooK Brad Hughes Brian J. Murrell Brian McCauley Charles C. Fu Charles Lane Chris Nandor Christian Gilmore Chris W. Unger Craig Macdonald Dale Couch Dan Kubb Dave Dunkin Dave W. Smith David Coppit David Dick David D. Kilzer Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Edward Avis Gary Shea Gisle Aas Gisle Aas Gisle Aas Gisle Aas Graham Barr Gurusamy Sarathy Gurusamy Sarathy Hans de Graaff Harald Joerg Harry Bochner Hugo Ilya Zakharevich INOUE Yoshinari Ivan Panchenko Jack Shirazi James Tillman Jan Dubois Jared Rhine Jim Stern Joao Lopes John Klar Johnny Lee Josh Kronengold Josh Rai Joshua Chamas Joshua Hoblitt Kartik Subbarao Keiichiro Nagano Ken Williams KONISHI Katsuhiro Lee T Lindley Liam Quinn Marc Hedlund Marc Langheinrich Mark D. Anderson Marko Asplund Mark Stosberg Markus B Krüger Markus Laker Martijn Koster Martin Thurn Matthew Eldridge Matt Sergeant Michael A. Chase Michael Quaranta Michael Thompson Mike Schilli Moshe Kaminsky Nathan Torkington Nicolai Langfeldt Nicolai Langfeldt Norton Allen Olly Betts Paul J. Schinder Philip GuentherDaniel Buenzli Pon Hwa Lin Radoslaw Zielinski Radu Greab Randal L. Schwartz Richard Chen Robin Barker Roy Fielding Sander van Zoest Sean M. Burke Slaven Rezic Steve A Fink Steve Hay Steven Butler Takanori Ugai Thomas Lotterer Tim Bunce Tom Hughes Tony Finch Ville Skyttä Ward Vandewege William York Yale Huang Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Files: * Copyright: © 1995-2008 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. © 1995 Martijn Koster. All rights reserved. License: GPL-1+ | Artistic This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Files: debian/* Copyright: © 2007 Martín Ferrari © 2007-2008 gregor herrmann © 2004-2006 Jay Bonci © 2002 Brendan O'Dea © 1999 John Goerzen © 1996-2004 Michael Alan Dorman License: other It is being assumed that all maintainers did choose a license compatible with the license used by upstream Perl is distributed under your choice of the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License. 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'.