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+This is the Debian prepackaged version of flex, the fast lexical
+analyzer generator.
+
+This package was first put together by Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>.
+It is currently maintained by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
+who took over from Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>,
+and it is built from sources obtained from:
+
+http://flex.sourceforge.net/
+
+Copyright:
+ 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:
+
+ Copyrig © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 The Flex Project.
+
+ Copyright © 1990, 1993, 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.
+
+Parts of the code are
+ Copyright © 1999 Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
+ Copyright © 2001,2002,2003 Martyn J. Pearce <fluffy@cpan.org>
+and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
+version 2.
+
+The Debian specific changes are © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 Manoj
+Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, and distributed under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License, version 2.
+
+On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
+
+ A copy of the GNU General Public License is also available at
+ <URL:http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. You may also obtain
+ it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin
+ St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+
+Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+arch-tag: d4250e44-a0e0-4ee0-adb9-2bd74f6eeb27