The code is copyright 2004 by
Moritz Mhlenhoff
Christoph Dwertmann.
Paul Damer

It is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2
or (at your option) any later version.
See COPYING for the full text of the license.

All sprites for the sea battles have been raytraced by
Christoph Dwertmann.

The sprites displayed in the menu bar were made by Kabutor
<kabutor@terra.es>. The sprites licensed under the terms of
the GPL as well.

The Buccaneer title screen score (thecatch.xm) was created by 
and is used under the terms of the GPL with permission of
Seth Peelle (BeaT).

The shot.wav sound effect is taken from the airstrike game
and is licensed under the GPL as well.

Freebooters includes the following additional artwork:

governor.jpg (Public Domain)
  Based on a photography by Lars Mathiassen
  http://commoncontent.org/catalog/images/photos/257/

Images from the GIMP-Savvy collection (public domain):
graves.jpg        (based on theb3550.jpg)  
tavern.jpg        (based on nur06505.jpg)
on-sea.jpg        (based on 32040004.jpg)
freebooters.jgg   (based on theb0115.jpg)
harbour.jpg       (based on line1862.jpg)
market.jpg        (based on line0761.jpg)
shipyard.jpg      (based on theb2853.jpg)

All flags are in the public domain as well.

All public domain artwork has been slightly modified and
relicensed under the terms of the GPL. Therefore all
artwork of freebooters is licensed under the GPL.

vera.ttf is a free font by Bitstream Inc from GNOME.