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
17 NASM LICENCE AGREEMENT
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
98 X. In addition to what this Licence otherwise provides, the Software
99 may be distributed in such a way as to be compliant with the GNU
100 General Public Licence, as published by the Free Software Foundation,
101 Cambridge, MA, USA; version 2, or, at your option, any later version;
102 incorporated herein by reference. You must include a copy of this
103 Licence with such distribution. Furthermore, patches sent to the
104 authors for the purpose of inclusion in the official release version
105 are considered cleared for release under the full terms of this
108 END OF LICENCE AGREEMENT