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The Guile License
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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:

     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.