This package was originally Debianised by Christophe Le Bars . It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.robot.ireq.ca/pub/ispell (which no longer exists) Upstream Author: Martin Boyer However, he no longer works there as mentioned here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinboyer Copyright and licence notice: Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 Martin Boyer and Hydro-Quebec. 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 2 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with the Debian GNU/Linux distribution in file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA On any Debian system, you can find the complete text of the GNU GPL (GNU General Public License) in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 The Debian packaging is Copyright (C) 2014 Ryan Kavanagh and is licensed under the GPL version 2, or (at your option) any later version, see above.