Most parts of OpenVAS-Client are released
under the "GNU GPLv2" or "GNU GPLv2 or any later version" license
(see COPYING).

The source code copyright is hold by various persons and organizations.
See the respective files for details which are the master information.

However, here is a summary copy of all the copyright information
assembled by the Debian Package maintainers. This
summary dates 2007-12-27.



 - OpenVAS GUI and documentation:
     * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2007 Greenbone Networks GmbH
     * Copyright (C) 2005 by DN-Systems GmbH
     * Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Renaud Deraison
     * Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc [regex library]
     * Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Arboi [ssl]

  - Include files:
     [nessus] Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Renaud Deraison
              Copyright (c) Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L., 2000 - 2001
     
  - Translations: 
     * Copyright (C) 2007 Greenbone Networks GmbH [de]
     * Copyright (C) 2007 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org> [es]
     * Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2003 by Ulrich Drepper
                 <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu> [makefile]

Other copyrights:

 - Autoconf:
    Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
    2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
    Inc.

Authors:

 - OpenVAS GUI:
     * Renaud Deraison
     * Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
     * Dirk Jagdmann <dirk@jagdmann.de>
     * Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan.oliver.wagner@intevation.de>
     * Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas.arendsen.hein@intevation.de>
     * Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de>
     * Michael Arboi [ssl]

License:

This package holds software with three four different licenses:

- GNU General Public License version 2 or later: the GUI itself (the frontend)
- GNU General Public License version 2: the nessus backend
- GNU Library General Public License version 2 or later: some files of the nessus backend

The following text explains which licenses apply to which parts of the code. In
case of doubt the interested party should review the copyright headers of the
affected files.

The license for most of the software in this package is the following:

    This software 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.

    This software 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 package; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

Notice that some parts of the software (source code files) are available
at a GPL version 2 or (at your choice) a later version, as described above.

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

You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects.

Also, OpenVAS-Client links against openvas-libraries.
This library is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE version 2 (or later).  On Debian systems, the complete text of
the GNU Library General Public License can be found in
`/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.

The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Tim Brown <timb@nth-dimension.org.uk> and
is licensed under the GPL, see above.