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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +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. |