questions on licenses

[Dori <slowpoke@gmail.com>]

Hi, I am trying to gather a list of licenses for all the software
packages that came with a Debian distro (this is are older packages,
not from the current releases). I was wondering what the best way
would be for me to get the license of each package as it pertains to
that specific version in the distro (seeing as how the license may
have changed later down the road).

I was hoping it would be embedded within the .deb files but apparently
it is not.

Any help?

Thanks,
Dori