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@@ -20,7 +20,21 @@ 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. |