From 8ee2e244eb2d55f64b297efd13eed9137cb4ee43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:09:11 -0700 Subject: 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 --- LICENSE | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'LICENSE') diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 0dd16f61..f397b828 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,15 +1,5 @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.1