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authorVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1990-06-27 23:47:53 +0000
committerVern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>1990-06-27 23:47:53 +0000
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@@ -2,30 +2,36 @@ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ PURPOSE.
This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
-remove this notice".
+remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
+authors') name".
Note that the "flex.skel" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;