1 | Flex carries the copyright used for BSD software, slightly modified |
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2 | because it originated at the Lawrence Berkeley (not Livermore!) Laboratory, |
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3 | which operates under a contract with the Department of Energy: |
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5 | Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
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6 | All rights reserved. |
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8 | This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by |
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9 | Vern Paxson. |
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11 | The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant |
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12 | to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States |
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13 | Department of Energy and the University of California. |
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14 | |
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15 | Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without |
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16 | modification are permitted provided that: (1) source distributions |
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17 | retain this entire copyright notice and comment, and (2) |
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18 | distributions including binaries display the following |
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19 | acknowledgement: ``This product includes software developed by the |
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20 | University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the |
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21 | documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and |
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22 | in all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this |
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23 | software. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its |
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24 | contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived |
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25 | from this software without specific prior written permission. |
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26 | |
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27 | THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
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28 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
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29 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR |
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30 | PURPOSE. |
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31 | |
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32 | This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except |
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33 | remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex |
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34 | authors') name". |
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36 | Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice. |
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37 | You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex; |
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38 | for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright. |
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