NASM Public Licence - What do you guys think?

[Nelson Rush]

Well, I'm not going to change it without their permission of course! ;-)
We've asked Julian about this but he doesn't understand why we have a
problem with the licence.

Well, I did get worried about it a couple months ago but relaxed and thought
it would be fine. But, after re-reading sections of it I'm worried again. I
really don't want to continue contributing to a monster.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Johnson [mailto:david at usermode.org]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 7:48 PM
To: palisade at users.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: NASM Public Licence - What do you guys think?


On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I thought.
>
> Just saying it's complaint doesn't mean it is, in my book anyways.
>
> The problem is that we're forced to use this licence if we want to make
> modifications to NASM, NASM is already licensed under it by the original
> authors.

Well, it's their code so they get to control the derivations. I mean,
you wouldn't want anybody changing the license on your stuff, would
you? I sounds like it's Free Software though, so don't worry too much
about using it. It does skirt the line a bit by requiring you to notify
them and all though.

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David Johnson
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