On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Florian Stoehr wrote:
>
> > netbsd comes with "flex". hm, is this gnu software?
>
> It is maintained and provided from the GNU project. Nevertheless, the
> README says:
>
>   Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
>   BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL) ...
>
> The COPYING document shows the BSD-style license. Plus it says:
>
>   This basically says "do whatever you please with this software except
>   remove this notice or take advantage of the University's (or the flex
>   authors') name".
>
> > i'm working on a commercial product (not open source), so can i use the
> > flex that comes with netbsd to generate the .c file?
>
> It is fine.
>
> Have a look at the COPYING file. It also says:
>
>   Note that the "flex.skl" scanner skeleton carries no copyright notice.
>   You are free to do whatever you please with scanners generated using flex;
>   for them, you are not even bound by the above copyright.
>
>  Jeremy C. Reed
>
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>

OK, fine :-)

thanks.

florian