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diff --git a/licenses/PCRE b/licenses/PCRE new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8d680612c --- /dev/null +++ b/licenses/PCRE @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +PCRE LICENCE +------------ + +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. + +End |