Frugalware is originally written by Miklós Vajna and he hopes Frugalware will be extended and worked on by many more after the initial public release :) You are free to use it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as described in the LICENSE file. Frugalware as a whole is copyrighted by the Frugalware Developer Team. Individual copyright notices can be found in the file headers. Furthermore, Frugalware includes code from several external sources. If you think your project is missing, feel free to send a patch. Here is an incomplete list: Name: Slackware Linux Version: 9.0 Homepage: http://www.slackware.com License: 1) Patrick J. Volkerding's own code is under the BSD license. 2) Slackware, as a whole, does not fall under a single license. See the file ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/COPYRIGHT.TXT for more details on that. We GPL our additions, but Patrick J. Volkerding's code is still under the BSD license: "Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Patrick Volkerding, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA. Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Slackware Linux, Inc. Concord, CA, USA. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``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 AUTHOR 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 file is written from an example by the MPlayer project.