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+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.