The sources have been downloaded here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/ AUTHORS The current version of DBD::mysql is almost completely written by Jochen Wiedmann, and is now being maintained by Patrick Galbraith (patg@mysql.com). The first version's author was Alligator Descartes, who was aided and abetted by Gary Shea, Andreas König and Tim Bunce amongst others. The Mysql module was originally written by Andreas König . The current version, mainly an emulation layer, is from Jochen Wiedmann. COPYRIGHT Large Portions Copyright (c) 2004-2006 MySQL Patrick Galbraith, Alexey Stroganov; Large Portions Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Rudolf Lippan; Large Portions Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Jochen Wiedmann; and code portions Copyright (c)1994-1997 their original authors. This module is released under the same license as Perl itself. See the Perl README for details. Check the perl license in /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright. You can also read the General Public License and the Artistic License in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic respectively.