Ticket #291: LICENSE

== Main license

Chicken falls under the following main license:

  Copyright (c) 2007-2010, The Chicken team
  Copyright (c) 2000-2007, Felix L. Winkelmann
  Copyright (c) 1993-2001, Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees
  Copyright (c) 2005-2010, Alex Shinn
  Copyright (c) 1996, 1998-2000, Olin Shivers
  All rights reserved.
  
  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  are met:
  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  3. The name of the authors may not be used to endorse or promote products
     derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
  
  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
  OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
  INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
  NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
  DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
  THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
  (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
  THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  

== Additional licenses in main code

srfi-1.scm:

  Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 by Olin Shivers. You may do as you please with
  this code as long as you do not remove this copyright notice or
  hold me liable for its use. Please send bug reports to shivers@ai.mit.edu.
      -Olin

srfi-13.scm, srfi-14.scm:

  Copyright (c) 1988-1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  Copyright (c) 1988-1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  This material was developed by the Scheme project at the Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and
  Computer Science.  Permission to copy and modify this software, to
  redistribute either the original software or a modified version, and
  to use this software for any purpose is granted, subject to the
  following restrictions and understandings.
  
  1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
  in full.
  
  2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to
  return to the MIT Scheme project any improvements or extensions that
  they make, so that these may be included in future releases; and (b)
  to inform MIT of noteworthy uses of this software.
  
  3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this
  software shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual
  standards of acknowledging credit in academic research.
  
  4. MIT has made no warrantee or representation that the operation of
  this software will be error-free, and MIT is under no obligation to
  provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
  
  5. In conjunction with products arising from the use of this material,
  there shall be no use of the name of the Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology nor of any adaptation thereof in any advertising,
  promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent from
  MIT in each case.


=== Public domain / unencumbered

Since we would still like to acknowledge all the useful contributions
from people who gave us public domain code, here's a list for
completeness sake:

data-structures.scm:

  Copyright (C) 1995 Mikael Djurfeldt
  Taken from SLIB (slightly adapted)

  SLIB's sort.scm has this statement:

  Richard A. O'Keefe (based on Prolog code by D.H.D.Warren)
  This code is in the public domain.

extras.scm:

  Copyright (c) 1991, Marc Feeley 
  Author: Marc Feeley (feeley@iro.umontreal.ca)
  Distribution restrictions: none

== Tests

Tests are ''not'' part of a typical binary Chicken distribution, so
these licenses are only relevant in atypical situations:

tests/slatex.scm
tests/slatex.sty
tests/test.tex:
  Copyright (c) 1990-2002, Dorai Sitaram.
  All rights reserved.

  Permission to distribute and use this work for any
  purpose is hereby granted provided this copyright
  notice is included in the copy.  This work is provided
  as is, with no warranty of any kind.

tests/dwindtst.scm:

  Copyright (C) 1992 Aubrey Jaffer
  
  Permission to copy this software, to modify it, to redistribute it,
  to distribute modified versions, and to use it for any purpose is
  granted, subject to the following restrictions and understandings.
  
  1.  Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
  in full.
  
  2.  I have made no warranty or representation that the operation of
  this software will be error-free, and I am under no obligation to
  provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
  
  3.  In conjunction with products arising from the use of this
  material, there shall be no use of my name in any advertising,
  promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent in
  each case.


tests/r4rstest.scm:

  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  
  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.
  
  To receive a copy of the GNU General Public License, write to the
  Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA; or view
  http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/GPL.html