This package was debianized by michael d. ivey <ivey@debian.org>.
It is currently maintained by Franz Pletz <fpletz@franz-pletz.org>.

It was downloaded from http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml

Upstream Author: Tony Monroe <tony@nog.net>

Copyright: 1999-2000 Tony Monroe

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Artistic License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic and that of the GNU
Generel Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

==============
cowsay License
==============

cowsay is distributed under the same licensing terms as Perl: the
Artistic License or the GNU General Public License.  If you don't
want to track down these licenses and read them for yourself, use
the parts that I'd prefer:

(0) I wrote it and you didn't.

(1) Give credit where credit is due if you borrow the code for some
other purpose.

(2) If you have any bugfixes or suggestions, please notify me so
that I may incorporate them.

(3) If you try to make money off of cowsay, you suck.

===============
cowsay Legalese
===============

(0) Copyright (c) 1999 Tony Monroe.  All rights reserved.  All
lefts may or may not be reversed at my discretion.

(1) This software package can be freely redistributed or modified
under the terms described above in the "cowsay License" section
of this file.

(2) cowsay is provided "as is," with no warranties whatsoever,
expressed or implied.  If you want some implied warranty about
merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose, you will
not find it here, because there is no such thing here.

(3) I hate legalese.


Contributed cow files
---------------------

cows/apt.cow:
Copyright 2002 Steven Barker <scbarker@uiuc.edu>
Released under the GNU General Public License

cows/bong.cow:
Copyright 1999 Lars Smith <lars@csua.berkeley.edu>
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/calvin.cow, cows/cock.cow:
Copyright 2006 Krishna Kumar <krish.kumar@gmail.com>
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/dragon-and-cow.cow:
Copyright 1999 kube@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/duck.cow:
Copyright 1999 Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/flaming-sheep.cow:
Copyright 1999 Geordan Rosario <geordan@csua.berkeley.edu>
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/gnu.cow, cows/suse.cow:
Copyright 2006 Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>
Released under the WTFPLv2 license:

   Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
   copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
   as the name is changed.

               DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
      TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

     0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. 

cows/mutilated.cow:
Copyright 1999 aspolito@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/pony.cow, cows/pony-smaller.cow, cows/unipony.cow,
cows/unipony-smaller.cow:
Copyright 2010 Nick Daly <nick.m.daly@gmail.com>
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/skeleton.cow:
Copyright 1999 {appel,kube,rowe}@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/snowman.cow:
Copyright 2009 chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>
Released under the same terms as cowsay or cc-by-3.0, at your discretion

cows/three-eyes.cow:
Copyright 1999 dpetrou@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/tux.cow:
Copyright 1999 pborys@p-soft.silesia.linux.org.pl
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/vader.cow:
Copyright 1999 geordan@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

cows/www.cow:
Copyright 1999 lim@csua.berkeley.edu
Released under the same terms as cowsay

examples/cowsay_random
Copyright 2010 Nick Daly
Released under the GNU General Public License
