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  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. Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 The Flex Project.
  5. Copyright (c) 1990, 1997 The Regents of the University of California.
  6. All rights reserved.
  7. This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
  8. Vern Paxson.
  9. The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
  10. to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
  11. Department of Energy and the University of California.
  12. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  13. modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  14. are met:
  15. 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  16. notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  17. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  18. notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  19. documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  20. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
  21. may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
  22. without specific prior written permission.
  23. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
  24. IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
  25. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  26. PURPOSE.
  27. This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
  28. remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
  29. authors') name".
  30. Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
  31. You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;
  32. for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright.