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This material isn't "meta-" enough to be in the Preface, and it supports (by its structure) some of the points that the Introduction makes about Guile, so I think it belongs here. * doc/ref/intro.texi (Introduction): Add `Organisation of this Manual' menu item and material to here... * doc/ref/preface.texi (Preface): ...from here.
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@c -*-texinfo-*-
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@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
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@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
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@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
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@node Preface
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@unnumbered Preface
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This manual describes how to use Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent
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Language for Extensions. It relates particularly to Guile version
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@value{VERSION}.
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@menu
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* Contributors::
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* Guile License::
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@end menu
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@node Contributors
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@unnumberedsec Contributors to this Manual
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The Guile reference and tutorial manuals were written and edited
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largely by Mark Galassi and Jim Blandy. In particular, Jim wrote the
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original tutorial on Guile's data representation and the C API for
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accessing Guile objects.
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Significant portions were contributed by Gary Houston (contributions
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to POSIX system calls and networking, expect, I/O internals and
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extensions, slib installation, error handling) and Tim Pierce
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(sections on script interpreter triggers, alists, function tracing).
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Tom Lord contributed a great deal of material with early Guile
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snapshots; although most of this text has been rewritten, all of it
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was important, and some of the structure remains.
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Aubrey Jaffer wrote the SCM Scheme implementation and manual upon
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which the Guile program and manual are based. Some portions of the
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SCM and SLIB manuals have been included here verbatim.
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Since Guile 1.4, Neil Jerram has been maintaining and improving the
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reference manual. Among other contributions, he wrote the Basic
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Ideas chapter, developed the tools for keeping the manual in sync
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with snarfed libguile docstrings, and reorganized the structure so as
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to accommodate docstrings for all Guile's primitives.
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Martin Grabmueller has made substantial contributions throughout the
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reference manual in preparation for the Guile 1.6 release, including
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filling out a lot of the documentation of Scheme data types, control
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mechanisms and procedures. In addition, he wrote the documentation
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for Guile's SRFI modules and modules associated with the Guile REPL.
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The chapter on GOOPS was written by Christian Lynbech, Mikael
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Djurfeldt and Neil Jerram.
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@node Guile License
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@unnumberedsec The Guile License
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@cindex copying
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@cindex GPL
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@cindex LGPL
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@cindex license
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Guile is Free Software. Guile is copyrighted, not public domain, and
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there are restrictions on its distribution or redistribution, but
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these restrictions are designed to permit everything a cooperating
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person would want to do.
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@itemize @bullet
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@item
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The Guile library (libguile) and supporting files are published under
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the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later.
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See the files @file{COPYING.LESSER} and @file{COPYING}.
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@item
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The Guile readline module is published under the terms of the GNU
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General Public License version 3 or later. See the file @file{COPYING}.
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@item
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The manual you're now reading is published under the terms of the GNU
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Free Documentation License (@pxref{GNU Free Documentation License}).
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@end itemize
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C code linking to the Guile library is subject to terms of that
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library. Basically such code may be published on any terms, provided
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users can re-link against a new or modified version of Guile.
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C code linking to the Guile readline module is subject to the terms of
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that module. Basically such code must be published on Free terms.
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Scheme level code written to be run by Guile (but not derived from
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Guile itself) is not restricted in any way, and may be published on any
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terms. We encourage authors to publish on Free terms.
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You must be aware there is no warranty whatsoever for Guile. This is
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described in full in the licenses.
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@c Local Variables:
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@c TeX-master: "guile.texi"
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@c End:
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