liblockdev is (c) 1997, 1999 by Fabrizio Polacco <fab@prosa.it>

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 
   License (LGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; 
   version 2.1 dated February 1999.

   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.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General 
   Public License (LGPL) along with this program;  if not, write 
   to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.

It's primary source is the Debian archives:
 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lockdev/

================ CREDITS ================

Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>
	- code revision 
	- suggestion for the use of the semaphore.
Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
	- code revision 
Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
	- suggestion to support the cua devices.
	- suggestions for naming of functions.
Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>
	- NMU for new perl
Adam P. Harris
	- changes in debian postinst.
Martin Schulze
	- changes in perl makefile
	- suggestions for changes in assembler stage for debug.
Hamish Moffatt, James Troup
	- dependencies check.
Yann Dirson
	- suggestions for a debugging shared library.
Roger Leigh
	- updated to ISO C89 C.
	- work with modern glibc dev_t.
	- work with devices in subdirectories, á la DevFS