This is a debian pakcage of the GNU assembler, linker, and binary 
utilities compiled for cross develoopment for the avr processor.

It uses the source as can be found in the binutils-source package.

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>

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 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 with
the Debian GNU/Linux distribution in file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL;
if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street,
Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

The packaging is (c) 2005-2009 Hector Oron Martinez <Hector.Oron@gmail.com>
and is also licensed under the GPL, just as binutils.