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diff --git a/srclib/pcre/COPYING b/srclib/pcre/COPYING index f305033c16..8effa66492 100644 --- a/srclib/pcre/COPYING +++ b/srclib/pcre/COPYING @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Written by: Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> University of Cambridge Computing Service, Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. -Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge +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 @@ -20,13 +20,31 @@ restrictions: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by - explicit claim or by omission. + explicit claim or by omission. In practice, this means that if you use + PCRE in software which 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. 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), then the terms of that licence shall - supersede any condition above with which it is incompatible. + 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 |