This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of watchdog.
Watchdog was written by Michael Meskes
Copying:
Copyright (C) 1996-2020 Michael Meskes, Paul Crawford
WATCHDOG 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.
WATCHDOG 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.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
* Michael Meskes Fri 24 Apr 2020 10:29:55 AM CEST
Modifications for Debian are copyright (C) 1997-2020 Michael Meskes, (C)
1997-2000 Johnie Ingram, and also released under the terms of the GPL
as stated above.