This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of xboard, the X
Window System interface to GNU Chess.

This package was put together by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
 ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard/

This package has been modified by Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>.
Modifications of xboard package for Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (C)
1996-2002 Brian Mays and are released under the GPL (on Debian systems
see "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL").

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files
 * changed installation targets from /usr/bin and /usr/games
   to /usr/games and /usr/lib/games
 * moved the xboard binary to /usr/lib/games/xboard.real so that it can
   be wrapped by xaw-wrappers
 * the Debian makefile removes parser.c so that it can be rebuilt with
   lex
 * remove hack to Makefile to place info files in /usr/share

xboard was written by:
 * Chris Sears and Dan Sears (versions 1.0 through
   1.2)
 * Tim Mann (versions 1.3 through 3.2)
 * Elmar Bartel (new piece bitmaps for version 3.2)
 * Wayne Christopher (color scheme and old 80x80 piece
   bitmaps, taken from XChess)
 * Evan Welsh (cmail)
 * John Chanak (initial implementation of ICS mode)

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The original xboard package:

Copyright (C) 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts

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Enhancements:

Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 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; version 2 dated June, 1991.

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

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