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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H. Peter Anvin 2009-07-06 11:22:58 -07:00
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@ -320,12 +320,39 @@ know who you are), and we'll improve it out of all recognition.
Again.
\S{legal} License Conditions
\S{legal} \i{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.
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!
NASM has a \i{website} at
\W{http://www.nasm.us/}\c{http://www.nasm.us/}. 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.
\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