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PCRE is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax
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and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.
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Written by: Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
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University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge
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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any
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computer system, and to redistribute it freely, subject to the following
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1. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
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explicit claim or by omission. In practice, this means that if you use
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PCRE in software which you distribute to others, commercially or
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otherwise, you must put a sentence like this
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Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
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which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright
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by the University of Cambridge, England.
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somewhere reasonably visible in your documentation and in any relevant
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files or online help data or similar. A reference to the ftp site for
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the source, that is, to
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ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
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should also be given in the documentation.
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3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
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misrepresented as being the original software.
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4. If PCRE is embedded in any software that is released under the GNU
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General Purpose Licence (GPL), or Lesser General Purpose Licence (LGPL),
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then the terms of that licence shall supersede any condition above with
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which it is incompatible.
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The documentation for PCRE, supplied in the "doc" directory, is distributed
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under the same terms as the software itself.
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