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From: | "T.E.Dickey" <dickey AT clark DOT net> |
Subject: | Re: Copyright of flex? |
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Date: | Sun, 01 Aug 1999 12:12:27 GMT |
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Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com> wrote: > Peter Palotas wrote: >> I'm wondering what the copyright on flex is? (Or where it is >> perhaps)... >> >> Is it the same as Bison, i.e. that you can't use it without making all >> of your code GPL? no > The version of flex at the DJGPP repository (flex-2.5-4) carries a BSD > like license. The license is in the source archive (flx254s.zip). The > documentation (flx254d.zip) archive includes a copy of the GPL, which I > think is an error. I agree - the copy at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/flex states that it has a slightly modified BSD license. (The documentation is a puzzle though - I've seen a more extensive manpage which is not part of the current distribution; apparently it was subject to different conditions and is not distributed with flex 2.5.4). -- the manpage I was looking at was a copy where DEC had pasted their copyright onto a somewhat older version of flex ... -- Thomas E. Dickey dickey AT clark DOT net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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