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authorVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1989-06-20 16:47:40 +0000
committerVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1989-06-20 16:47:40 +0000
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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) 1989 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 are permitted
+ provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
+ duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
+ advertising materials, and other materials related to such
+ distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
+ by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
+ University may not 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".
+
+Note that the "flex.skel" 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.