PLEASE NOTE:

   THE CONTENTS OF THIS DIRECTORY AND ALL DIRECTORIES CONTAINED WITHIN
 THIS DIRECTORY IS SOFTWARE CREATED BY THE "AMERICAN BIOMETRIC
 CORPORATION" (ABC). THIS SOFTWARE IS __NOT__ DISTRIBUTED UNDER AN
 OPEN-SOURCE LICENSE. YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO OBTAIN THE SOURCE CODE
 TO THIS SOFTWARE. THE BINARY LIBRARY AND KERNEL MODULE ARE PROVIDED FOR
 USE IN CONJUCNTION WITH THE BIOMOUSE PLUS FINGERPRINT SCANNER, A
 HARDWARE PRODUCT OF ABC.

ABC IS ON THE WEB AT:

  HTTP://WWW.ABIO.COM/

AND

  HTTP://WWW.BIOMOUSE.COM/

NOTE: this version of the software is distributed as part of a larger
  PAM module/agent package, with the full consent of ABC (they want
  LINUX users to buy their fingerprint scanners!). For reference, here
  is the header of the email that confirmed this.

[...]

Subject: Re: Fingerprints
   Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:49:24 -0400
   From: "Bob Hillhouse" <bob@abio.com>
     To: "Andrew Morgan" <morgan@transmeta.com>

Hi Andrew,
   It's no problem, you can release all of our Linux based SDK components
with your PAM; however, credit must be given to ABC for the components used.

[...]
