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-Guile License ==================================================
-
-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.
+Guile is covered under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License, version 3 or later.  See COPYING.LESSER and COPYING.