i386/nasm/doc/Licence

   1 Terms and Conditions for the use of the Netwide Assembler
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   4 Can I have the gist without reading the legalese?
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   7 Basically, NASM is free. You can't charge for it. You can copy it as
   8 much as you like. You can incorporate it, or bits of it, into other
   9 free programs if you want. (But we want to know about it if you do,
  10 and we want to be mentioned in the credits.) We may well allow you
  11 to incorporate it into commercial software too, but we'll probably
  12 demand some money for it, and we'll certainly demand to be given
  13 credit. And in extreme cases (although I can't immediately think of
  14 a reason we might actually want to do this) we may refuse to let you
  15 do it at all.
  16
  17 NASM LICENCE AGREEMENT
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  19
  20 By "the Software" this licence refers to the complete contents of
  21 the NASM archive, excluding this licence document itself, and
  22 excluding the contents of the `test' directory. The Netwide
  23 Disassembler, NDISASM, is specifically included under this licence.
  24
  25 I. The Software is freely redistributable; anyone may copy the
  26 Software, or parts of the Software, and give away as many copies as
  27 they like to anyone, as long as this licence document is kept with
  28 the Software. Charging a fee for the Software is prohibited,
  29 although a fee may be charged for the act of transferring a copy,
  30 and you can offer warranty protection and charge a fee for that.
  31
  32 II. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other
  33 freely redistributable software (by which we mean software that may
  34 be obtained free of charge) without requiring permission from the
  35 authors, as long as due credit is given to the authors of the
  36 Software in the resulting work, as long as the authors are informed
  37 of this action if possible, and as long as those parts of the
  38 Software that are used remain under this licence.
  39
  40 III. Modified forms of the Software may be created and distributed
  41 as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, as
  42 long as the resulting work remains under this licence, as long as
  43 the modified form of the Software is distributed with documentation
  44 which still gives credit to the original authors of the Software,
  45 and as long as the modified form of the Software is distributed with
  46 a clear statement that it is not the original form of the Software
  47 in the form that it was distributed by the authors.
  48
  49 IV. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other
  50 software which is not freely redistributable (i.e. software for
  51 which a fee is charged), as long as permission is granted from the
  52 authors of the Software. The authors reserve the right to grant this
  53 permission only for a fee, which may at our option take the form of
  54 royalty payments. The authors also reserve the right to refuse to
  55 grant permission if they deem it necessary.
  56
  57 V. The Software may be incorporated, in its original archive form,
  58 into software collections or archives which are not freely
  59 redistributable, as long as it is clearly stated that the Software
  60 itself remains freely redistributable and remains under this licence
  61 and no other. Such collections are deemed not to fall under article
  62 IV of this licence.
  63
  64 VI. Object files or programs generated by the Software as output do
  65 not fall under this licence at all, and may be placed under any
  66 licence the author wishes. The authors explicitly lay no claim to,
  67 and assert no rights over, any programs written by other people and
  68 assembled into object form by the Software.
  69
  70 VII. You may not copy, modify or distribute the Software except
  71 under the terms given in this licence document. You may not
  72 sublicense the Software or in any way place it under any other
  73 licence than this one. Since you have not signed this licence, you
  74 are not of course required to accept it; however, no other licence
  75 applies to the Software, and nothing else grants you any permission
  76 to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Software in any way.
  77 These actions are therefore prohibited if you do not accept this
  78 licence.
  79
  80 VIII. There is no warranty for the Software, to the extent permitted
  81 by applicable law. The authors provide the Software "as is" without
  82 warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not
  83 limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for
  84 a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and
  85 performance of the Software is with you. Should the Software prove
  86 defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or
  87 correction.
  88
  89 IX. In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed to in
  90 writing, will any of the authors be liable to you for damages,
  91 including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages,
  92 arising out of the use or the inability to use the Software,
  93 including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered
  94 inaccurate or a failure of the Software to operate with any other
  95 programs, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such
  96 damages.
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  98 END OF LICENCE AGREEMENT