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 manual at present (see libguile/guile-procedures.txt which is
 generated by the build process).
 
+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.
+
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