This is the Debian prepackaged version of the GNU gettext utilities. GNU gettext was written by Ulrich Drepper . emacs po-mode was written by François Pinard . This package was first created by Erick Branderhorst , and is currently maintained by Santiago Vila . This release has been built using the sources from: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.8.1.tar.xz The changes were fairly minimal, and consisted solely of adding various debian/* files to the distribution. Copyright and license for the gettext tools: Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program 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. This program 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. Copyright and license for the libintl library: Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. Copyright and license for gettext documentation: Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This manual is free documentation. It is dually licensed under the GNU FDL and the GNU GPL. This means that you can redistribute this manual under either of these two licenses, at your choice. This manual is covered by the GNU FDL. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), either version 1.2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF); with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Text, and with no Back-Cover Texts. This manual is covered by the GNU GPL. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL', the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL', and the complete text of the GNU Free Documentation License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL'