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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-07-06 11:22:58 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-07-06 11:22:58 -0700
commitecfba9d6abdda57383f61031ab3406efba2769b3 (patch)
tree06cd5ef260de23d1b828048e03fe79651a115575
parent460a4fef3a5df3ca3c39b6876c6011888b4a1053 (diff)
downloadnasm-ecfba9d6abdda57383f61031ab3406efba2769b3.tar.gz
doc: update license and contact information
Update license information to 2-BSD; update contact information. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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+++ b/doc/nasmdoc.src
@@ -320,12 +320,39 @@ know who you are), and we'll improve it out of all recognition.
Again.
-\S{legal} License Conditions
-
-Please see the file \c{COPYING}, supplied as part of any NASM
-distribution archive, for the \i{license} conditions under which you
-may use NASM. NASM is now under the so-called GNU Lesser General
-Public License, LGPL.
+\S{legal} \i{License} Conditions
+
+Please see the file \c{LICENSE}, supplied as part of any NASM
+distribution archive, for the license conditions under which you may
+use NASM. NASM is now under the so-called 2-clause BSD license, also
+known as the simplified BSD license.
+
+Copyright 1996-2009 the NASM Authors - All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+met:
+
+\b Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+\b Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
+CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
+INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
+CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
+OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
+EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
\H{contact} Contact Information
@@ -335,32 +362,20 @@ team of developers, accessible through the \c{nasm-devel} mailing list
(see below for the link).
If you want to report a bug, please read \k{bugs} first.
-NASM has a \i{WWW page} at
-\W{http://nasm.sourceforge.net}\c{http://nasm.sourceforge.net}. If it's
-not there, google for us!
-
-
-The original authors are \i{e\-mail}able as
-\W{mailto:jules@dsf.org.uk}\c{jules@dsf.org.uk} and
-\W{mailto:anakin@pobox.com}\c{anakin@pobox.com}.
-The latter is no longer involved in the development team.
+NASM has a \i{website} at
+\W{http://www.nasm.us/}\c{http://www.nasm.us/}. If it's not there,
+google for us!
-\i{New releases} of NASM are uploaded to the official sites
-\W{http://nasm.sourceforge.net}\c{http://nasm.sourceforge.net}
-and to
-\W{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/}\i\c{ftp.kernel.org}
-and
-\W{ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/devel/lang/assemblers/}\i\c{ibiblio.org}.
+\i{New releases} of NASM are available from the official web site.
Announcements are posted to
\W{news:comp.lang.asm.x86}\i\c{comp.lang.asm.x86},
-\W{news:alt.lang.asm}\i\c{alt.lang.asm} and
-\W{news:comp.os.linux.announce}\i\c{comp.os.linux.announce}
+and to the web site
+\W{http://www.freshmeat.net/}\c{http://www.freshmeat.net/}.
If you want information about NASM beta releases, and the current
-development status, please subscribe to the \i\c{nasm-devel} email list
-by registering at
-\W{http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm}\c{http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm}.
+development status, please subscribe to the \i\c{nasm-devel} email
+list; see link from the website.
\H{install} Installation