[Buildroot] [PATCH] yasm: New package

[Luca Ceresoli]

Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:30:11 +0300,
> Stefan Froberg <stefan.froberg at petroprogram.com> a écrit :
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Froberg <stefan.froberg at petroprogram.com>
> 
> Thanks, applied to next with a few minor fixes.
> 
> Luca, I'm Cc'ing you on this regarding the license informations. The
> license of Yasm seems to be, hum, complicated. Below the contents of
> the COPYING file of the project. How should we encode that into
> YASM_LICENSE ? :-)

What a foolish license!

At first sight, I can't think of anything better than
YASM_LICENSE = Various
because there are BSD-derivatives, GPLs, and more.
Informative, complete and concise: you can have at most two of them
here, and I would not sacrifice the last two ones.

Ah, and sorry for the delay... vacation time (without 3G).

Luca


> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Yasm is Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Peter Johnson and other Yasm developers.
> 
> Yasm developers and/or contributors include:
>   Peter Johnson
>   Michael Urman
>   Brian Gladman (Visual Studio build files, other fixes)
>   Stanislav Karchebny (options parser)
>   Mathieu Monnier (SSE4 instruction patches, NASM preprocessor additions)
>   Anonymous "NASM64" developer (NASM preprocessor fixes)
>   Stephen Polkowski (x86 instruction patches)
>   Henryk Richter (Mach-O object format)
>   Ben Skeggs (patches, bug reports)
>   Alexei Svitkine (GAS preprocessor)
>   Samuel Thibault (TASM parser and frontend)
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 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.
> 
> ---------
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
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