Apt is copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Jason Gunthorpe and others.
Apt is currently developed by APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>.

License: GPLv2+

    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 2 of the License, 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.

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

See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, or
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt> for the terms of the latest version
of the GNU General Public License.