[unix-history] / usr.bin / lex / COPYING

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 "lex.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.
Commit	Line	Data
15637ed4 RG	1	Flex carries the copyright used for BSD software, slightly modified
	2	because it originated at the Lawrence Berkeley (not Livermore!) Laboratory,
	3	which operates under a contract with the Department of Energy:
	4
78ed81a3	5	Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
	6	All rights reserved.
	7
	8	This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
	9	Vern Paxson.
	10
	11	The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
	12	to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
	13	Department of Energy and the University of California.
	14
	15	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
	16	provided that: (1) source distributions retain this entire
	17	copyright notice and comment, and (2) distributions including
	18	binaries display the following acknowledgement: ``This product
	19	includes software developed by the University of California,
	20	Berkeley and its contributors'' in the documentation or other
	21	materials provided with the distribution and in all advertising
	22	materials mentioning features or use of this software. Neither the
	23	name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be
	24	used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
	25	without specific prior written permission.
	26
	27	THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
	28	IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
	29	WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
	30	PURPOSE.
15637ed4 RG	31
15637ed4 RG	32	This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
78ed81a3	33	remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
78ed81a3	34	authors') name".
15637ed4	35
78ed81a3	36	Note that the "lex.skel" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
15637ed4 RG	37	You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;
15637ed4 RG	38	for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright.