diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6846270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Boris Fomitchev grants Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use STLport and its documentation without fee.
+
+By downloading, using, or copying STLport or any portion thereof,  Licensee agrees to abide by the intellectual property laws and all other applicable laws of the United States of America, and to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
+
+Licensee shall maintain the following copyright and permission  notices on STLport sources and its documentation unchanged :
+
+Copyright 1999,2000 Boris Fomitchev
+
+This material is provided "as is", with absolutely no warranty expressed or implied. Any use is at your own risk.
+Permission to use or copy this software for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided the above notices are retained on all copies. Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was modified is included with the above copyright notice.
+The Licensee may distribute binaries compiled with STLport (whether original or modified) without any royalties or restrictions.
+
+The Licensee may distribute original or modified STLport sources, provided that:
+
+The conditions indicated in the above permission notice are met;
+The following copyright notices are retained when present, and conditions provided in accompanying permission notices are met :
+Copyright 1994 Hewlett-Packard Company
+
+Copyright 1996,97 Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
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+Copyright 1997 Moscow Center for SPARC Technology.
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+Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Hewlett-Packard Company makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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+Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Silicon Graphics makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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+Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Moscow Center for SPARC Technology  makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
diff --git a/stlport/stl/_new.h b/stlport/stl/_new.h
index 94094cf..ffa25f4 100644
--- a/stlport/stl/_new.h
+++ b/stlport/stl/_new.h
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 #    ifndef _STLP_INTERNAL_CSTDIO
 #      include <stl/_cstdio.h>
 #    endif
-#    define _STLP_THROW_BAD_ALLOC puts("out of memory\n"); exit(1)
+#    define _STLP_THROW_BAD_ALLOC puts("out of memory\n"); abort()
 #  else
 #    define _STLP_THROW_BAD_ALLOC _STLP_THROW(_STLP_STD::bad_alloc())
 #  endif