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simh repo: Add further clarifying language to the LICENSE.txt

Specifically to bound the restrictions to changes authored by Mark
Pizzolato only in the master branch.
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Mark Pizzolato 2022-06-05 08:43:41 -07:00
parent 5e59c6049f
commit 576365a024

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@ -36,22 +36,25 @@ above or in each relevant source code module.
Any use of this codebase that changes the code to influence the behavior of
the disk access activities provided by sim_disk.c and scp.c is free to do
that as long as anyone doing this is explicitly not licensed to any subsequent
changes to any part of the codebase made by Mark Pizzolato after the
LICENSE.txt was added to the repository. Changes that qualify for this
changes to any part of the codebase in the master branch of the git repository
(https://github.com/simh/simh) made by Mark Pizzolato after the LICENSE.txt
was added to the master branch of repository. Changes that qualify for this
restriction at least include: changing the behavior or default of
SET AUTOSIZE/NOAUTOSIZE, or any code in scp.c and sim_disk.c or any simulator
components that use the sim_disk routines.
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.
All changes to the codebase in the master branch of the
https://github.com/simh/simh repository made by Mark Pizzolato after the
inclusion of the first version of this LICENSE.txt file in that branch of the
repository will be not be licensed for use by anyone making any of the above
mentioned sim_disk/autosize related changes.
There are three potential categories of users who may need clarification
when interpreting the above license wording:
Group 1: Any person who uses completely unmodified code from the repo is
licensed to use all of "Mark Pizzolato's future changes".
Group 1: Any person who uses completely unmodified code from the master
branch of the repository is licensed to use all of "Mark Pizzolato's
future changes".
Group 2: Any person using a simulator that has no devices which use sim_disk
and that doesn't modify scp.c is licensed to use all of "Mark
Pizzolato's future changes".
@ -59,12 +62,14 @@ Group 3: Any person who finds it desireable to change the AUTOSIZE
functionality of scp.c or any aspect of the sim_disk.c is NOT
licensed for any of "Mark Pizzolato's future changes".
Note: Mark Pizzolato's future changes are commits made to the repository
authored by Mark Pizzolato after the first version of this LICENSE.txt
was added to the repository.
Note: Mark Pizzolato's future changes are commits made to the master branch
of the https://github.com/simh/simh repository authored by Mark
Pizzolato after the first version of this LICENSE.txt was added to
the master branch of the repository.
For many years, there exist some binary files in the repository which may
not have formal copyright releases from the original copyright holders and
therefore those are certainly not granted a license by this LICENSE.txt file.
Upon specific request any such unlicensed will be removed.
Upon specific request by the copyright holder any such unlicensed files will
be removed.