

Terms and Conditions for the use of the Netwide Assembler

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Can I have the gist without reading the legalese?

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Basically, NASM is free. You can't charge for it. You can copy it as

much as you like. You can incorporate it, or bits of it, into other

free programs if you want. (But we want to know about it if you do,

and we want to be mentioned in the credits.) We may well allow you

to incorporate it into commercial software too, but we'll probably

demand some money for it, and we'll certainly demand to be given

credit. And in extreme cases (although I can't immediately think of

a reason we might actually want to do this) we may refuse to let you

do it at all.



NASM LICENCE AGREEMENT

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By "the Software" this licence refers to the complete contents of

the NASM archive, excluding this licence document itself, and

excluding the contents of the `test' directory. The Netwide

Disassembler, NDISASM, is specifically included under this licence.



I. The Software is freely redistributable; anyone may copy the

Software, or parts of the Software, and give away as many copies as

they like to anyone, as long as this licence document is kept with

the Software. Charging a fee for the Software is prohibited,

although a fee may be charged for the act of transferring a copy,

and you can offer warranty protection and charge a fee for that.



II. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other

freely redistributable software (by which we mean software that may

be obtained free of charge) without requiring permission from the

authors, as long as due credit is given to the authors of the

Software in the resulting work, as long as the authors are informed

of this action if possible, and as long as those parts of the

Software that are used remain under this licence.



III. Modified forms of the Software may be created and distributed

as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, as

long as the resulting work remains under this licence, as long as

the modified form of the Software is distributed with documentation

which still gives credit to the original authors of the Software,

and as long as the modified form of the Software is distributed with

a clear statement that it is not the original form of the Software

in the form that it was distributed by the authors.



IV. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other

software which is not freely redistributable (i.e. software for

which a fee is charged), as long as permission is granted from the

authors of the Software. The authors reserve the right to grant this

permission only for a fee, which may at our option take the form of

royalty payments. The authors also reserve the right to refuse to

grant permission if they deem it necessary. For further information

about who exactly the authors are, see clause XI below.



V. The Software may be incorporated, in its original archive form,

into software collections or archives which are not freely

redistributable, as long as it is clearly stated that the Software

itself remains freely redistributable and remains under this licence

and no other. Such collections are deemed not to fall under article

IV of this licence.



VI. Object files or programs generated by the Software as output do

not fall under this licence at all, and may be placed under any

licence the author wishes. The authors explicitly lay no claim to,

and assert no rights over, any programs written by other people and

assembled into object form by the Software.



VII. You may not copy, modify or distribute the Software except

under the terms given in this licence document. You may not

sublicense the Software or in any way place it under any other

licence than this one. Since you have not signed this licence, you

are not of course required to accept it; however, no other licence

applies to the Software, and nothing else grants you any permission

to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Software in any way.

These actions are therefore prohibited if you do not accept this

licence.



VIII. There is no warranty for the Software, to the extent permitted

by applicable law. The authors provide the Software "as is" without

warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not

limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for

a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and

performance of the Software is with you. Should the Software prove

defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or

correction.



IX. In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed to in

writing, will any of the authors be liable to you for damages,

including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages,

arising out of the use or the inability to use the Software,

including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered

inaccurate or a failure of the Software to operate with any other

programs, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such

damages.



X. In addition to what this Licence otherwise provides, the Software

may be distributed in such a way as to be compliant with the GNU

General Public Licence, as published by the Free Software Foundation,

Cambridge, MA, USA; version 2, or, at your option, any later version;

incorporated herein by reference.  You must include a copy of this

Licence with such distribution.  Furthermore, patches sent to the

authors for the purpose of inclusion in the official release version

are considered cleared for release under the full terms of this

Licence.



XI. The authors of NASM are the original authors (Simon Tatham and

Julian Hall) and all those who the original authors feel have

contributed significantly to the overall project.  If you wish to

contact the authors, Julian Hall (jules@earthcorp.com) should be your

first port of call.



XII. Should any part of this agreement be deemed unenforcable, it is

intended that the remainder of the agreement be held in force.



END OF LICENCE AGREEMENT

