Copyright and Licensing
software copyright 1998-2001 Stefan Westerfeld stefan@space.twc.de
Documentation copyright 1999-2001 Stefan Westerfeld stefan@space.twc.de and Jeff Tranter tranter@kde.org.
All libraries that are in are licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public license. The vast majority of the code is in the libraries, including the whole of MCOP and ArtsFlow. This allows the libraries to be used for non-free/non-open source applications if desired.
There are a few programs (such as artsd), that are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. As there have been different opinions on whether or not linking GPL programs with is legal, I also added an explicit notice which allows that, in addition to the GPL: permission is also granted to link this program with the library, treating like a library that normally accompanies the operating system kernel, whether or not that is in fact the case.