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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:

    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:

    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    * 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.