diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'COPYING')
| -rw-r--r-- | COPYING | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +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) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 The Flex Project. + +Copyright (c) 1990, 1997 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 the following conditions +are met: + +1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the + documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. + +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. |