Debian updates for the 3.6 release of babel were done by Erick
Branderhorst <branderh@debian.org> from the sources found at
ftp.cs.ruu.nl:
/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/babel-3.6beta.zip.

This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of babel

This package was put together by Nils Rennebarth
<nils@nus.pan-net.de> from sources found at
ftp.dante.de:/pub/dante/macros/latex/packages/babel

This is what I consider the copyright on all files of the
babel package:

% Copyright 1989-1996 Johannes L. Braams and any individual authors
% listed elsewhere in this file.  All rights reserved.
% 
% For further copyright information any other copyright notices in this
% file.
% 
% This file is part of the Babel system release 3.6 beta.
% -------------------------------------------------------
%   This system 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.
% 
%   For error reports concerning UNCHANGED versions of this file no more
%   than one year old, see bugs.txt.
% 
%   Please do not request updates from me directly.  Primary
%   distribution is through the CTAN archives.
% 
% 
% IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
% 
% You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone.
% 
% You are allowed to distribute this file under the condition that it is
% distributed together with all the files listed in manifest.txt.
% 
% If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain!
% 
% Permission is granted to copy this file to another file with a clearly
% different name and to customize the declarations in that copy to serve
% the needs of your installation, provided that you comply with
% the conditions in the file legal.txt from the LaTeX2e distribution.
% 
% However, NO PERMISSION is granted to produce or to distribute a
% modified version of this file under its original name.
%  
% You are NOT ALLOWED to change this file.

The author says in 00readme.txt:
 
If you like the babel system, please send me a postcard with a nice
postage stamp for my collection>!

Please do not request updates from me.  Distribution is done only
through mail servers and TeX organisations.

Send any suggestions, additions, complaints, bug reports to me:
e-mail:  JLBraams@cistron.nl
address: Kooienswater 62
         2715 AJ Zoetermeer
         The Netherlands


