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(c) Jim Davies, January 1995 You may copy and distribute this file freely. Any queries and complaints should be forwarded to Jim.Davies@comlab.ox.ac.uk. If you make any changes to this file, please do not distribute the results under the name `zed-csp.sty'.
Copyright (c) (CopyrightHoldersName) (From 4-digit-year)-(To 4-digit-year) Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name (TrademarkedName) not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. (TrademarkedName) makes no representations about the suitability this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
ANTLR 2 License We reserve no legal rights to the ANTLR--it is fully in the public domain. An individual or company may do whatever they wish with source code distributed with ANTLR or the code generated by ANTLR, including the incorporation of ANTLR, or its output, into commerical software. We encourage users to develop software with ANTLR. However, we do ask that credit is given to us for developing ANTLR. By "credit", we mean that if you use ANTLR or incorporate any source code into one of your programs (commercial product, research project, or otherwise) that you acknowledge this fact somewhere in the documentation, research report, etc... If you like ANTLR and have developed a nice t...
BitTorrent Open Source License Version 1.0 This BitTorrent Open Source License (the "License") applies to the BitTorrent client and related software products as well as any updates or maintenance releases of that software ("BitTorrent Products") that are distributed by BitTorrent, Inc. ("Licensor"). Any BitTorrent Product licensed pursuant to this License is a Licensed Product. Licensed Product, in its entirety, is protected by U.S. copyright law. This License identifies the terms under which you may use, copy, distribute or modify Licensed Product. Preamble This Preamble is intended to describe, in plain English, the nature and scope of this License. However, this Preamble is not a part of this license. The legal effect of th...
Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer. All rights reserved. Development of this software was funded, in part, by Cray Research Inc., UUNET Communications Services Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Scriptics Corporation, none of whom are responsible for the results. The author thanks all of them. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms - with or without modification - are permitted for any purpose, provided that redistributions in source form retain this entire copyright notice and indicate the origin and nature of any modifications. I'd appreciate being given credit for this package in the documentation of software which uses it, but that is not a requirement. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLI...