1Flex carries the copyright used for BSD software, slightly modified
2because it originated at the Lawrence Berkeley (not Livermore!) Laboratory,
3which operates under a contract with the Department of Energy:
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5	Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
6	All rights reserved.
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8	This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
9	Vern Paxson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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32This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
33remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
34authors') name".
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36Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
37You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;
38for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright.
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