[Fsf-friends] Smart cards in GNU/Linux

[Manilal K M]

Hello all,
   I am in search of device driver/software/API in Linux that supports
Smart Card printers/readers.. While searching in the web I came across
"GNU SmartCard Project"
(http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~bossekr/news.html). But unfortunately I
didn't got anything useful there since the language used is German.
Can anyone give me the status of this project or any other GPL'd Smart
Card Software.

TIA.
regards
Manilal