On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:44:52 +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly > appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our > needs.
The nasm author(s) have said they'd release it under GPL; that would clear all problems. See the logs for #21945 . > Basically, NASM is free. You can't charge for it. Doesn't allow for a copying fee -> non-free. > You can copy it as much as you like. You can incorporate it, or bits of > it, into other free programs if you want. No definition of "free" given -> unclear. > (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, DFSG-free software can be commercial too. This should say "proprietory" or "binary-only" or somesuch. > 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. > III. Modified forms of the Software may be created and distributed > as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, This shouldn't be obligatory. It should be a request, clearly separated from the main body of the license. > 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), I can ask a fee for my GPLed code; that doesn't make it not freely redistributable. See RMS, "Selling Free Software (can be OK)" at www.gnu.org . > 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. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
