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_COPYRIGHT@

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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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.

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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:
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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.

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

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