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sysnews was written by Charles, <int@link.xs4all.nl>, and was
downloaded from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/admin/login/

debian packaging and modifications:
    Copyright (C) 1996 Dominik Kubla, <dominik@debian.org>
    Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
    Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
    Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com>

    The Debian modifications are released 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.

sysnews:
    Copyright (C) 1993-6 Charles (int@link.xs4all.nl)

    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.

getopt.c:
    Copyright (C) 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    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, or (at your option) any
    later version.

On Debian systems, you can find the full text of the GPL version 2 in
'/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'