Yasm is Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Peter Johnson and other Yasm developers. Yasm developers and/or contributors include: Peter Johnson Michael Urman Brian Gladman (VC8 build files, other fixes) Stanislav Karchebny (options parser) Mathieu Monnier (SSE4 instruction patches) Anonymous "NASM64" developer (NASM preprocessor fixes) Stephen Polkowski (x86 instruction patches) Henryk Richter (Mach-O object format) Ben Skeggs (patches, bug reports) ----------------------------------- Yasm licensing overview and summary ----------------------------------- Note: This document does not provide legal advice nor is it the actual license of any part of Yasm. See the individual licenses for complete details. Consult a lawyer for legal advice. The primary license of Yasm is the 2-clause BSD license. Please use this license if you plan on submitting code to the project. Yasm has absolutely no warranty; not even for merchantibility or fitness for a particular purpose. ------- Libyasm ------- Libyasm is 2-clause or 3-clause BSD licensed, with the exception of bitvect, which is triple-licensed under the Artistic license, GPL, and LGPL. Libyasm is thus GPL and LGPL compatible. In addition, this also means that libyasm is free for binary-only distribution as long as the terms of the 3-clause BSD license and Artistic license (as it applies to bitvect) are fulfilled. ------- Modules ------- The modules are 2-clause or 3-clause BSD licensed, with the exception of: preprocs/nasm - LGPL licensed --------- Frontends --------- The frontends are 2-clause BSD licensed. ------------- License Texts ------------- The full text of all licenses are provided in separate files in the source distribution. Each source file may include the entire license (in the case of the BSD and Artistic licenses), or may reference the GPL or LGPL license file. BSD.txt - 2-clause and 3-clause BSD licenses Artistic.txt - Artistic license GNU_GPL-2.0 - GNU General Public License GNU_LGPL-2.0 - GNU Library General Public License