diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt index 0eef9505..8167d069 100644 --- a/LICENSE.txt +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -This file summarizes below the general simh license which is essentially -stated at the top of all source code files with the respective authors -mentioned there. Pay particular attention to the last couple of paragraphs -below. +This file summarizes below the general simh license (indented) which is +essentially stated at the top of all source code files with the respective +authors mentioned there. Pay particular attention to the last couple of +paragraphs (beyond the indented section) which add some specific constraints. Copyright (c) 1993-2022, Robert M Supnik, Mark Pizzolato and others @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ below. written authorization from all those parties. -Additionally, the following restrictions on the use of this software apply. +Additionally, the following restrictions on the use of this software apply +and, where applicable, thereby override the "without limitation" clause +above. Any use of this codebase that changes the code to influence the behavior of the disk access activities is free to do that as long as anyone doing this @@ -39,5 +41,7 @@ Mark Pizzolato. Changes that qualify for this restriction at least include: changing the behavior or default of SET AUTOSIZE/NOAUTOSIZE, or any code in sim_disk.c or any simulator components that use the sim_disk routines. -All changes to the codebase made after the inclusion of this LICENSE.txt -file in the github simh repository. +All changes to the codebase made by Mark Pizzolato after the inclusion of +the first version of this LICENSE.txt file in the github simh repository +will be not be licensed for use by anyone making any of the above mentioned +sim_disk/autosize related changes.