<sect1 id="license-geotools">

  <title>License of the Geotools Library</title>

  <para>
    Geotools is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the <citetitle>Lesser General Public
    License (LGPL)</citetitle> as published by the Free Software Foundation;
    either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
    version.
  </para>

  <para>
    Geotools 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
    <citetitle>Lesser General Public License</citetitle> for more details.
  </para>

  <para>
    A copy of the <citetitle>Lesser General Public License</citetitle> is
    included with the Geotools distribution.  You may also obtain a copy of the
    the <citetitle>Lesser General Public License</citetitle> from the Free
    Software Foundation by visiting 
    <ulink type="http" url="http://www.fsf.org">their Web site</ulink>.
  </para>

</sect1>
