This is the Debian GNU/Linux version of the Net::Whois Perl module.

From Whois.pm:

    Originally written by Chip Salzenberg (chip@pobox.com) in April of
    1997 for Idle Communications, Inc. In September of 1998 Dana Hudes
    (dhudes@hudes.org) found this but it was broken and he needed it
    so he fixed it.  In August, 1999 Dana and Chip agreed to become
    co-maintainers of the module.  Dana released a new version of
    Net::Whois to CPAN and resumed active development.

    This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. If you make
    modifications, the author would like to know so that they can be
    incorporated into future releases.

Perl is distributed under either the Artistic licence or the GPL.

The full text of the GPL is available on Debian systems in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

The full text of the Artistic Licence is available on Debian systems in
/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.

This package has been through multiple maintainers (for a list see
/usr/share/doc/libnet-whois-perl/changelog.Debian.gz).

Current Debian specific changes are copyright (c) 2002,
Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>

