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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) 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.
-
- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- 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.
-
- 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.
-