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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 04.07.2021, 05:16

> Wolfware's WASM is (now) MIT, NASM (since 2.07) is BSD, TinyAsm is BSD.
> Legally speaking, although I highly sympathize, "public domain" doesn't
> exist in some countries.
1. My main target is American companies (even
though I am not American), and "public domain"
is recognized there.

2. There is no harm writing "public domain"
regardless, even if it (supposedly) has no
effect in some countries.

3. There is no need to explicitly write the
word "copyright", when you're explicitly trying
to get rid of copyright.

4. Saying "you can follow CC0 if you like" (which
makes zero attempt to assert copyright, and every
attempt to get rid of it) to cover those countries
is fine.

If your intention is to write public domain code,
"some countries" shouldn't hold up the process.

If your intention is to have conditions, then
fine, that's yet another copyright/license,
but it shouldn't be blamed on "some countries".

In my opinion, obviously.

> > So this new nasm option is of interest to me, as
> > at long last they seem to have some interest in
> > support the industry-standard masm (with at
> > least tasm and wasm as semi-clones).
>
> I don't think they intend compatibility at all except in very very simple
> cases (mostly machine-generated).
I am willing to write machine-generated style.

> MASM has waaaayyyyy too many
> options and features.
I don't need that. Like I said, I'm after a
common subset.

> > Any ideas?
>
> Try "wasm -zcm=tasm" or "wasm -zcm=masm" or (ideally) "jwasmr".
It already works under wasm. My "any ideas" was
for nasm to start working.

BFN. Paul.

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