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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 <cjf@netaxs.com> (debian.*
files were originally prepared by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>),
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 <james@nocrew.org>.
It is now maintained by Arthur Loiret <aloiret@debian.org>.

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'.