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- This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the PCRE regular
- expression library and associated pgrep utility.
-
- This package was put together by me, Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org> from the
- original sources obtained from ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk:/pub/software/programming/pcre.
-
- 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) 1997-2000 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 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.
-
-
- On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
- Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
-