Fix up license text to closely match COPYING. It's ugly, but it's more

accurate.

svn path=/trunk/yasm/; revision=1040

diff --git a/frontends/yasm/yasm.c b/frontends/yasm/yasm.c
index e162254a2ca7b4d6406d3db148fe4502cdd633f9..f3d26a5766351dec6ae1fa38c96b4e22ea3890d7 100644 (file)
--- a/frontends/yasm/yasm.c
+++ b/frontends/yasm/yasm.c
@@ -153,10 +153,29 @@ static opt_option options[] =
     PACKAGE " " VERSION "\n",
     N_("Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Peter Johnson and other"), " " PACKAGE " ",
     N_("developers.\n"),
-    N_("This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the\n"),
-    N_("terms of the GNU General Public License.  Portions of this program\n"),
-    N_("are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License or the\n"),
-    N_("2-clause BSD license; see individual file comments for details.\n"),
+    N_("**Licensing summary**\n"),
+    N_("Note: This summary does not provide legal advice nor is it the\n"),
+    N_(" actual license.  See the individual licenses for complete\n"),
+    N_(" details.  Consult a laywer for legal advice.\n"),
+    N_("The primary license is the 2-clause BSD license.  Please use this\n"),
+    N_(" license if you plan on submitting code to the project.\n"),
+    N_("Libyasm:\n"),
+    N_(" Libyasm is 2-clause or 3-clause BSD licensed, with the exception\n"),
+    N_(" of bitvect, which is triple-licensed under the Artistic license,\n"),
+    N_(" GPL, and LGPL.  Libyasm is thus GPL and LGPL compatible.  In\n"),
+    N_(" addition, this also means that libyasm is free for binary-only\n"),
+    N_(" distribution as long as the terms of the 3-clause BSD license and\n"),
+    N_(" Artistic license (as it applies to bitvect) are fulfilled.\n"),
+    N_("Modules:\n"),
+    N_(" Most of the modules are 2-clause BSD licensed, except:\n"),
+    N_("  preprocs/nasm - LGPL licensed\n"),
+    N_("Frontends:\n"),
+    N_(" The frontends are 2-clause BSD licensed.\n"),
+    N_("License Texts:\n"),
+    N_(" The full text of all licenses are provided in separate files in\n"),
+    N_(" this program's source distribution.  Each file may include the\n"),
+    N_(" entire license (in the case of the BSD and Artistic licenses), or\n"),
+    N_(" may reference the GPL or LGPL license file.\n"),
     N_("This program has absolutely no warranty; not even for\n"),
     N_("merchantibility or fitness for a particular purpose.\n"),
     N_("Compiled on"), " " __DATE__ ".\n",