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authorMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2003-04-05 18:57:42 +0000
committerMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2003-04-05 18:57:42 +0000
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@chapter The Guile License
@end ifnottex
-The license of Guile consists of the GNU GPL plus a special statement
-giving blanket permission to link with non-free software. This is the
-license statement as found in any individual file that it applies to:
-
-@quotation
-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 along
-with this software; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
-Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
-02111-1307 USA
-
-As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission
-for additional uses of the text contained in its release of GUILE.
-
-The exception is that, if you link the GUILE library with other files to
-produce an executable, this does not by itself cause the resulting
-executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. Your use of
-that executable is in no way restricted on account of linking the GUILE
-library code into it.
-
-This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
-executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
-
-This exception applies only to the code released by the Free Software
-Foundation under the name GUILE. If you copy code from other Free
-Software Foundation releases into a copy of GUILE, as the General Public
-License permits, the exception does not apply to the code that you add
-in this way. To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such
-modified files, you must delete this exception notice from them.
-
-If you write modifications of your own for GUILE, it is your choice
-whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications. If you
-do not wish that, delete this exception notice.
-@end quotation
-
+The license of Guile is the GNU Lesser General Public License.
@iftex
@section Layout of this Manual