BR 2826669: update licensing information in README

The code is now under the 2-clause BSD license.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1d9e8ddcf5095fb17efc7b116a54f82da25d1754..ee4f055d2fcb082ebe1bc03136b57f1ddcd20738 100644 (file)
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+++ b/README
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ Many many developers all over the net respect NASM for what it is
 flexible and mature assembler tool with support for many output
 formats (thus netwide!!).
 
-Now we have good news for you: NASM is licensed under LGPL.
-This means its development is open to even wider society of
-programmers wishing to improve their lovely assembler.
+Now we have good news for you: NASM is licensed under the "simplified"
+(2-clause) BSD license.  This means its development is open to even
+wider society of programmers wishing to improve their lovely
+assembler.
 
 The NASM project is now situated at SourceForge.net, the most
 popular Open Source development site on the Internet.