License

Click is licensed under a three-clause BSD License. It basically means:do whatever you want with it as long as the copyright in Click sticksaround, the conditions are not modified and the disclaimer is present.Furthermore, you must not use the names of the authors to promote derivativesof the software without written consent.

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Copyright (c) 2014 by Armin Ronacher.

Click uses parts of optparse written by Gregory P. Ward and maintained by thePython software foundation. This is limited to code in the parser.pymodule:

Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Gregory P. Ward. All rights reserved.Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or withoutmodification, are permitted provided that the following conditions aremet:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyrightnotice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the abovecopyright notice, this list of conditions and the followingdisclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials providedwith the distribution.
  • The names of the contributors may not be used to endorse orpromote products derived from this software without specificprior written permission.

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