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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, 2010, 2011
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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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Like Guile itself, the Guile reference manual is a living entity, cared
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for by many people over a long period of time. As such, it is hard to
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identify individuals of whom to say ``yes, this person, she wrote the
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manual.''
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Still, among the many contributions, some caretakers stand out. First
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among them is Neil Jerram, who has been working on this document for ten
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years now. Neil's attention both to detail and to the big picture have
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made a real difference in the understanding of a generation of Guile
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hackers.
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Next we should note Marius Vollmer's effect on this document. Marius
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maintained Guile during a period in which Guile's API was
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clarified---put to the fire, so to speak---and he had the good sense to
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effect the same change on the manual.
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Martin Grabmueller made substantial contributions throughout the manual
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in preparation for the Guile 1.6 release, including filling out a lot of
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the documentation of Scheme data types, control mechanisms and
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procedures. In addition, he wrote the documentation for Guile's SRFI
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modules and modules associated with the Guile REPL.
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Ludovic Court@`es and Andy Wingo, the Guile maintainers at the time of
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this writing (late 2010), have also made their dent in the manual,
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writing documentation for new modules and subsystems in Guile 2.0. They
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are also responsible for ensuring that the existing text retains its
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relevance as Guile evolves. @xref{Reporting Bugs}, for more information
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on reporting problems in this manual.
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The content for the first versions of this manual incorporated and was
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inspired by documents from Aubrey Jaffer, author of the SCM system on
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which Guile was based, and from Tom Lord, Guile's first maintainer.
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Although most of this text has been rewritten, all of it was important,
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and some of the structure remains.
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The manual for the first versions of Guile were largely written, edited,
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and compiled by Mark Galassi and Jim Blandy. In particular, Jim wrote
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the 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 also contributed by Thien-Thi Nguyen, Kevin
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Ryde, Mikael Djurfeldt, Christian Lynbech, Julian Graham, Gary Houston,
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Tim Pierce, and a few dozen more. You, reader, are most welcome to join
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their esteemed ranks. Visit Guile's web site at
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@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/} to find out how to get
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involved.
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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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