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:
5 Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
8 This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.
15 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without
16 modification are permitted provided that: (1) source distributions
17 retain this entire copyright notice and comment, and (2)
18 distributions including binaries display the following
19 acknowledgement: ``This product includes software developed by the
20 University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the
21 documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and
22 in all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
23 software. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its
24 contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
25 from this software without specific prior written permission.
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
32 This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
33 remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
36 Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
37 You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;
38 for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright.