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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-07-06 11:09:11 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-07-06 11:09:11 -0700
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downloadnasm-8ee2e244eb2d55f64b297efd13eed9137cb4ee43.tar.gz
NASM: relicense under the 2-clause BSD license
*To the best of my knowledge*, we now have authorization from everyone who has significantly contributed to NASM in the past. As such, change the license to the 2-clause BSD license. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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-Most of NASM is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
-(LGPL) version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version.
-
-Please read the "COPYING" file in the archive root, or visit
-http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html, for information about the LGPL.
-
-We are trying to shift the license to the 2-clause BSD license, so any
-patches submitted are required to be dual-licensed under those two licenses.
-
-Many files are already switched to the 2-clause BSD license.
-
-The 2-clause BSD license is:
+NASM is now licensed under the 2-clause BSD license, also known as the
+simplified BSD license.
Copyright 1996-2009 the NASM Authors - All rights reserved.