     This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the
U.S. Gazetteer, formatted for use by The DICT Development Group's
client sever software.

     The formatting software was written by Rickard E. Faith
(faith@acm.org).

     This package was constructed by Robert D. Hilliard
<hilliard@debian.org> from sources obtained from
ftp.dict.org/pub/dict. 

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files

     The original U.S. Gazetteer Place and Zipcode Files are provided by
the U.S. Census Bureau and are in the Public Domain.

The original data is available from:
    ftp://ftp.census.gov:/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/places.zip
    ftp://ftp.census.gov:/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/mcds.zip
    ftp://ftp.census.gov:/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/counties.zip
    ftp://ftp.census.gov:/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.zip
     

     The formatting software is distributed under the following
license:

 * 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 1, or (at your option) any
 * later version.
 *
 * 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'

     A copy of the GNU General Public License is also available at
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.  You may also obtain it by
writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Robert D. Hilliard  <hilliard@debian.org>
