CUP Parser Generator Copyright Notice, License, and Disclaimer

Copyright 1996-2015 by Scott Hudson, Frank Flannery, C. Scott Ananian, Michael Petter

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of the authors or their employers not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.

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This is an open source license. It is also GPL-Compatible (see entry for "Standard ML of New Jersey"). The portions of CUP output which are hard-coded into the CUP source code are (naturally) covered by this same license, as is the CUP runtime code linked with the generated parser.

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