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PCRE LICENCE
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PCRE is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax
and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.
Written by: Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
Copyright (c) 1997-2001 University of Cambridge
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any
computer system, and to redistribute it freely, subject to the following
restrictions:
1. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
explicit claim or by omission. In practice, this means that if you use
PCRE in software that you distribute to others, commercially or
otherwise, you must put a sentence like this
Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright
by the University of Cambridge, England.
somewhere reasonably visible in your documentation and in any relevant
files or online help data or similar. A reference to the ftp site for
the source, that is, to
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
should also be given in the documentation. However, this condition is not
intended to apply to whole chains of software. If package A includes PCRE,
it must acknowledge it, but if package B is software that includes package
A, the condition is not imposed on package B (unless it uses PCRE
independently).
3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
4. If PCRE is embedded in any software that is released under the GNU
General Purpose Licence (GPL), or Lesser General Purpose Licence (LGPL),
then the terms of that licence shall supersede any condition above with
which it is incompatible.
The documentation for PCRE, supplied in the "doc" directory, is distributed
under the same terms as the software itself.
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