This is the Debian GNU prepackaged version of Gawk, a pattern scanning and processing language. Gawk was written by Diane Barlow Close, Arnold D. Robbins, Paul H. Rubin and Richard Stallman. This package was put together by Chris Fearnley (debian.* files were originally prepared by Ian Murdock ), from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.6.tar.gz Until version 3.1.6 it was maintained by James Troup . It is now maintained by Arthur Loiret . Gawk is Copyright (C) 1989-2010 Free Software Foundation. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Chris Fearnley. Modifications for Debian GNU Copyright (C) 1998-2006 James Troup. GAWK 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GAWK 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 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA On Debian GNU systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.