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Brief description
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A user-friendly, thread-safe, and object-oriented API for reading and writing [JSON](http://json.org) files, written in modern Fortran.

License
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The JSON-Fortran source code and related files and documentation are
distributed under a permissive free software license (BSD-style).  See
the
[LICENSE](http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/page/development-resources/LICENSE.html)
file for more details.

Official Releases
-----------------

The **current stable release** is **{!.VERSION!}** and can be [downloaded
on GitHub](https://github.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran/releases/latest)
or installed with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh) on MacOS. The
documentation for the current version, **{!.VERSION!}**, can be
found [here](http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/{!.VERSION!}/index.html)[^1], and a
list of changes from the previous version are
[here](http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/page/releases/index.html#change-log).

A list of all past releases, links to their documentation, and the
change log can be found on the
[releases page](http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/page/releases/index.html).

Miscellaneous
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* For more information about JSON, see: <http://www.json.org/>

*[API]: Application Programming Interface: a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications
*[JSON]: JavaScript Object Notation: A human friendly syntax for storing and exchanging data
*[variable type]: json_unknown, json_null, json_object, json_array, json_logical, json_integer, json_double, json_string
*[current stable release]: {!.VERSION!}
*[latest stable release]: {!.VERSION!}

[^1]:
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    back to *general* documentation; use the browser's back button to
    navigate back to <http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/>