Introductory comments

The license is copied from the license of Guile, and the only significant changes are the library name and copyright owners.

Copyright notice

This collective work is Copyright (C) by Adrian Sandor
Individual portions may be copyright by individual contributors, and are included in this collective work with permission of the copyright owners.

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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 gpl.txt. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

As a special exception, the copyright owner gives permission for additional uses of the text contained in this release of SMART.

The exception is that, if you link the SMART 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 SMART 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 copyright owner under the name SMART. If you copy code from other sources into a copy of SMART, 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 SMART, it is your choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications. If you do not wish that, delete this exception notice.