This package was debianized by Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org> on
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:00:29 -0400.
It was brought up to date by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> on
Fri,  6 Apr 2001 10:30:32 -0500.

It was downloaded via CVS from cvs.kde.org.

Upstream authors:

  Note that KOffice has many contributers beyond those listed below.

  Karbon: Rob Buis <buis@kde.org>, Lennart Kudling <kudling@kde.org>,
          Tomislav Lukman <tomislav.lukman@ck.hinet.hr> and
          Benoit Vautrin <benoit.vautrin@free.fr>
  KChart: Kalle Dalheimer <kalle@kde.org>,
          Laurent Montel <lmontel@mandrakesoft.com>,
          Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz@kde.org> and
          Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie@kde.org>
  KFormula: Andrea Rizzi <rizzi@kde.org>, Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>,
            Ulrich Kuettler <ulrich.kuettler@gmx.de>,
            Heinrich Kuettler <heinrich.kuettler@gmx.de> and
            Claus O. Wilke <wilke@caltech.edu>
  Kivio: Dave Marotti <lndshark@speakeasy.net>,
         Max Judin <max@thekompany.com>, Dmitry Poplavsky <dima@kde.org>,
         Peter Simonsson <psn@linux.se>, Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@kde.org>,
         Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> and
         theKompany.com <info@thekompany.com>
  KOShell: Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>, Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>,
           David Faure <faure@kde.org> and Sven Lüppken <sven@kde.org>
  KPresenter: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie@kde.org>,
              Werner Trobin <trobin@kde.org>, David Faure <dfaure@kde.org>,
              Toshitaka Fujioka <fujioka@kde.org>,
              Lukáš Tinkl <lukas@kde.org>, Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org>,
              Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de> and
              Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org>
  Krita: Andrew Richards <physajr@phys.canterbury.ac.nz>,
         Matthias Elter <me@kde.org>, Michael Koch <koch@kde.org>,
         Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih@cetus.zrz.tu-berlin.de>,
         John Califf <jcaliff@compuzone.net>,
         Patrick Julien <freak@codepimps.org>,
         Toshitaka Fujioka <fujioka@kde.org> and
         Laurent Montel <lmontel@mandrakesoft.com>
  KSpread: Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>,
           Laurent Montel <montell@club-internet.fr>,
           David Faure <faure@kde.org> and many others
  Kugar: Keith Davis (Mutiny Bay Software) <info@mutinybaysoftware.com>,
         Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>,
         Alexander Dymo <cloudtemple@mksat.net>,
         Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@jowenn.at> and
         Joris Marcillac <joris@marcillac.com>
  KWord: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie@kde.org>, Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>,
         David Faure <dfaure@kde.org>, Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>,
         Shaheed Haque <srhaque@iee.org>,
         Laurent Montel <lmontel@mandrakesoft.com>,
         Sven Lüppken <sven@kde.org> and many others

Copyright:

  The different components of KOffice are released under a mixture of
  licenses, most of which are either the GPL (GNU General Public
  License) or the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

  Specifically, all components are released under the GPL with the
  following exceptions.

  Karbon, KPresenter, KSpread (excluding calculator plugin),
  Kugar Designer, KWord, Spell checker tool, Thumbnail creators:

    LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

    Note that the KSpread calculator plugin is released under the GPL.

  Kivio basic flowcharting stencils:

    BSD License.

  KOffice libraries:

    LGPL in the most part.

    Note however that components of libkofficeui, libkotext and libkwmf
    include code from Trolltech and theKompany.com that is released
    under the GPL.  If in doubt, the individual source files can be
    inspected; these each contain their own license statements.

  Import and export filters:

    A mixture of GPL and LGPL.  Again the individual source files can
    be inspected if in doubt.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete texts of the licenses mentioned
above can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' (GNU General Public
License), `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL' (GNU Lesser General Public
License) and `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD' (BSD License).
