This package was debianized by  Patrick J. Edwards <pje120@mail.usask.ca> on
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 01:55:03 -0600, and later redone by Johnie Ingram
(johnie@debian.org), and then moved on to Dan Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>.

The upstream sources are at ftp://ftp.bitchx.com/pub/BitchX.

Copyright of IRCII:

 * Copyright (c) 1990 Michael Sandrof.
 * Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Troy Rollo.
 * Copyright (c) 1992-1998 Matthew R. Green.
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without    
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
 *    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
 * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
 * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
 * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
 * BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
 * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
 * AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
 * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 * SUCH DAMAGE.

(This is the new IRC-II copyright, negotiated by David Welton of the
Debian Project and applied retroactively by Michael Sandrof and the
other original authors.)

Version 2.1.1 to 2.2pre7 are Copyright 1991, 1992 Troy Rollo.

Versions 2.2pre8 and above are copyright (c) 1992-1996
matthew green.  Any modifications to this code may be
redistributed with this copyright attached.

Two modules of the source code, ('scandir.c', copyright 1983), and
('glob.c', copyright 1993) are copyright by the Regents of the
University of California, with modifications by various contributers.
All rights are reserved by the University of California.

This software is provided ``as is'' and without any express or
implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied
warranties of merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose.

Some modifications made to the original ("stock") client:
Copyright (C) 1993, 1997 Jeremy Nelson,
Copyright (C) 1994       Jake Khuon,
Copyright (C) 1995, 1997 Jeremy Nelson and others ("EPIC software
labs"), the rights to which are granted non-exclusively to matthew green and
are provided to you under the terms of this license.


Portions of BitchX Copyright by:

Colten Edwards, William Glozer, Tom Zickel, Michael Sandrof, Troy
Rollo, Philippe Levan, EPIC Software Labs, Jeremy Nelson, The Regents
of the University of California, Matthew Green, Mathew Green, Scott H
Kilau.


glob.c:
/*
 * Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
 *The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
 * Guido van Rossum.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
 *    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
 *    without specific prior written permission.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
 * ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
 * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
 * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
 * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
 * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
 * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 * SUCH DAMAGE.
 */



Some modifications for Debian are copyright (C) 1998 Johnie Ingram, and
released under the terms of the GPL -- version 2, or any later
version.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GPL can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

Later modifications for Debian are copyright (C) 1999 Daniel Jacobowitz, and
released under the terms of the GPL -- version 2, or any later version.