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simh repo: Add top level COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files
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| The LICENSE.txt file summarizes the general simh license which is | ||
| essentially stated at the top of all source code files, along with | ||
| some additional limitations spelled out in the LICENSE.txt file. | ||
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| The purpose of this COPYING.txt file is to provide guidance for folks | ||
| who may want to include some or all of the simh code in other projects. | ||
| The point of this guidance is so that the actual version of the simh | ||
| code is retained in whatever derivative work may be produced so that | ||
| problems may be reasonably reported AND so that users and developers | ||
| can easily determine what simh version they are working with. | ||
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| The best way to do this leverages git's archive feature which in | ||
| the simh case has simh git commit information embedded in the archive. | ||
| Alternatively, some live git operations could be done to fetch and | ||
| extrace the current commit/version information from that archive | ||
| and then pass it around and through the derivative project's build | ||
| mechanism. | ||
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| GIT ARCHIVE CONSIDERATIONS: | ||
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| For all projects (even those where Internet connectivity may not be | ||
| available on all machines that may build the project) the git archive | ||
| feature would be most appropriate. | ||
| Additionally a few dozen megabytes of storage on the build machine | ||
| won't be needed to hold the complete simh codebase. These days | ||
| storage is so cheap that this generally shouldn't be a concern, but | ||
| some folks really like to keep things to a minimal footprint. | ||
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| A git archive containing all of the simh components can be acquired | ||
| from the simh gitub repository for the latest simh code from: | ||
| https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip | ||
| or for a specific simh commit: | ||
| https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/<commit-hash>.zip | ||
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| The archive produced will automatically contain the specifics of the | ||
| simh git version that has been archived. | ||
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| Each time the simh components are acquired as an archive, the | ||
| project's interesting simh pieces can then be extracted from the | ||
| archive, modified as needed by that project and the project's build | ||
| mechanism can then compile the simh components with: | ||
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| -DSIM_VERSION_MODE=derivative-project-name-and-or-version | ||
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| This will result in simulators built this way to have SHOW VERSION | ||
| output both identifying the particular version of simh pieces that | ||
| were used as well as whatever interesting version the project may | ||
| want to identify itself with. | ||
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| Those acquired and extracted pieces can then be stored in the source | ||
| code system for the derivative project and potentially be updated | ||
| from time to time. | ||
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| If all of the simh components aren't going to be available in the | ||
| derivative project, all of the actual simulator pieces should generally | ||
| be gathered and used within the derivative project. These pieces | ||
| should certainly include all the source code (and license files) in | ||
| the root simh directory along with the particular simulator's source | ||
| directory, and any additional directories which may be referenced in | ||
| the normal simulator build. These additional directories may include: | ||
| display, slirp and slirp_glue. | ||
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| DIRECT GIT repository access | ||
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| Using a direct git approach is more complicated and entangles | ||
| capturing the git commit id and time and passing that around and | ||
| through the derivative project's build mechanisms and the working | ||
| environment available in the derivative project. Folks going down | ||
| this path are on their own to try to solve this. |
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| 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. | ||
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| Copyright (c) 1993-2022, Robert M Supnik, Mark Pizzolato and others | ||
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| Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a | ||
| copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), | ||
| to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation | ||
| the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, | ||
| and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the | ||
| Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: | ||
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| The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in | ||
| all copies or substantial portions of the Software. | ||
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| THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR | ||
| IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, | ||
| FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL | ||
| ROBERT M SUPNIK, MARK PIZZOLATO OR OTHERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES | ||
| OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, | ||
| ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR | ||
| OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. | ||
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| Except as contained in this notice, the name of Robert M Supnik, Mark | ||
| Pizzolato or anyone else shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to | ||
| promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior | ||
| written authorization from all those parties. | ||
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| Additionally, the following restrictions on the use of this software apply. | ||
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| 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 | ||
| is explicitly not licensed to any subsequent changes to any part of the | ||
| codebase made by Mark Pizzolato after that functionality was implemented by | ||
| 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. | ||
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| All changes to the codebase made after the inclusion of this LICENSE.txt | ||
| file in the github simh repository. |