pidgin was initially packaged for Debian by Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>
on Sun, Apr 8 2007.

It was downloaded from:
 http://www.pidgin.im

Purple/Pidgin/Finch is the legal property of its developers.
Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this source distribution.
The contents of the COPYRIGHT file is included here:
Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple
Copyright (C) 1998-2007 by the following:

If you have contributed to this project then you deserve to be on this
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Saleem Abdulrasool
Dave Ahlswede
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Matt Amato
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Geoffrey Antos
Daniel Atallah
Paul Aurich
Patrick Aussems
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R. Tyler Ballance
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Rainer Blessing
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Sean Burke
Thomas Butter
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Andrea Canciani
Damien Carbery
Michael Carlson
Keegan Carruthers-Smith
Steve Cavilia
Julien Cegarra
Cerulean Studios, LLC
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Patrick Cheung
Ka-Hing Cheung
Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
Brian Chu
Arturo Cisneros, Jr.
Vincas Ciziunas
Jonathan Clark
Joe Clarke
Eoin Coffey
Jason Cohen
Todd Cohen
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Jono Cole
Lorenzo Colitti
Collabora Ltd.
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Nathan Conrad
Felipe Contreras
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Irving Cordova
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
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Palmer Cox
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Michael Culbertson
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Balwinder Singh Dheeman
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Finlay Dobbie
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Marc E.
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Sean Egan <seanegan@gmail.com>
William Ehlhardt
Markus Elfring
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Ignacio J. Elia
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Stefan Esser
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Nathan Fredrickson
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Free Software Foundation
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Intel Corporation
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Justin Wood
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Nickolai Zeldovich
Marco Ziech
Piotr Zielinski
Jeroen Zwartepoorte

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.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL file.

--------------------

The code for the GG protocol plugin (libpurple/protocols/gg/lib) has the
following copyright notice:

  (C) Copyright 2001-2003 Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@irc.pl>
                          Robert J. Woźny <speedy@ziew.org>
                          Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
                          Tomasz Chiliński <chilek@chilan.com>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version
  2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public
License Version 2.1 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 file.

--------------------

The code for the OSCAR protocol (libpurple/protocols/oscar) has the following
copyright notice:

This file is the legal property of its developers.
Please see the AUTHORS file distributed alongside this file.
The contents of the AUTHORS file is included here:

N: ComBOTS Product GmbH (htfv)
T: 2007
E: foss@combots.com

N: Jonathan Clark
T: 2005-2006
E: ardentlygnarley a.t users d.o.t sourceforge d.o.t net

N: Mark Doliner
T: 2001-2006
H: markdoliner
E: thekingant a.t users d.o.t sourceforge d.o.t net
W: http://kingant.net/

N: Adam Fritzler
T: 1998-2001
H: mid
E: mid a.t auk d.o.t cx
W: http://www.auk.cx/~mid,http://www.auk.cx/faim
D: Wrote most of the wap of crap that you see before you.

N: Josh Myer
T: 1998-2001
E: josh a.t joshisanerd d.o.t com
D: OFT/ODC (not quite finished yet..), random little things, Munger-At-Large, compile-time warnings.

N: Daniel M. Pomerantz
H: dmprantz
D: Made initial versions cross platform

N: Daniel Reed
T: 1998-2001
H: n, linuxkitty
E: n a.t ml d.o.t org
W: http://users.n.ml.org/n/
D: Fixed aim_snac.c

N: Eric Warmenhoven
T: 1998-2001
E: warmenhoven a.t linux d.o.t com
D: Some OFT info, initial author of the libpurple-side of the oscar protocol plugin

N: Brock Wilcox
T: 1998-2001
H: awwaiid
E: awwaiid a.t auk d.o.t cx
D: Figured out original password roasting


This library 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

--------------------

The code for libzephyr (libpurple/protocols/zephyr), which is not built for the 
Debian package, has the following copyright notices:

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WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
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