--- code/trunk/LICENCE	2007/02/24 21:39:33	49
+++ code/trunk/LICENCE	2007/02/24 21:40:24	71
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 University of Cambridge Computing Service,
 Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
 
-Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge
+Copyright (c) 1997-2003 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
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 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
+   PCRE in software that you distribute to others, commercially or
    otherwise, you must put a sentence like this
 
      Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
@@ -34,13 +34,21 @@
 
      ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
 
-   should also be given in the documentation.
+   should also be given in the documentation. However, this condition is not
+   intended to apply to whole chains of software. If package A includes PCRE,
+   it must acknowledge it, but if package B is software that includes package
+   A, the condition is not imposed on package B (unless it uses PCRE
+   independently).
 
 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.
+   General Purpose Licence (GPL), or Lesser General Purpose Licence (LGPL),
+   then the terms of that licence shall supersede any condition above with
+   which it is incompatible.
+
+The documentation for PCRE, supplied in the "doc" directory, is distributed
+under the same terms as the software itself.
 
 End