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author | Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> | 2003-12-03 10:38:02 +0000 |
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committer | Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> | 2003-12-03 10:38:02 +0000 |
commit | edc848712307fe5c881364e12e520e9fe58d9969 (patch) | |
tree | 1c055587d094d006b61c425136149350f326f106 /COPYING |
Initial import of the 2.5.4a branch
git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--2003-primary/flex--upstream--2.5--base-0
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Flex carries the copyright used for BSD software, slightly modified +because it originated at the Lawrence Berkeley (not Livermore!) Laboratory, +which operates under a contract with the Department of Energy: + + Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. + All rights reserved. + + This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by + Vern Paxson. + + The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant + to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States + Department of Energy and the University of California. + + Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without + modification are permitted provided that: (1) source distributions + retain this entire copyright notice and comment, and (2) + distributions including binaries display the following + acknowledgement: ``This product includes software developed by the + University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the + documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and + in all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this + software. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its + contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived + from this software without specific prior written permission. + + THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR + IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED + WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR + PURPOSE. + +This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except +remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex +authors') name". + +Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice. +You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex; +for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright. |