key: softfloat-2c
short_name: SoftFloat Legal Notice 2c
name: SoftFloat Legal Notice 2c
category: Permissive
owner: John R. Hauser
homepage_url: https://github.com/stffrdhrn/berkeley-softfloat-2?search=1#readme
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-softfloat-2c
text_urls:
  - http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat-2c.zip
other_urls:
  - http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html
ignorable_authors:
  - John R. Hauser
text: |
  Legal Notice

  SoftFloat was written by John R. Hauser.  Release 2c of SoftFloat was made
  possible in part by the International Computer Science Institute, located
  at Suite 600, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, California 94704.  Funding
  was partially provided by the National Science Foundation under grant
  MIP-9311980.  The original version of this code was written as part of a
  project to build a fixed-point vector processor in collaboration with the
  University of California at Berkeley, overseen by Profs. Nelson Morgan and
  John Wawrzynek.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS, FOR FREE.  Although reasonable effort
  has been made to avoid it, THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN FAULTS THAT WILL AT
  TIMES RESULT IN INCORRECT BEHAVIOR.  USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS RESTRICTED TO
  PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN AND WILL TOLERATE ALL LOSSES, COSTS, OR
  OTHER PROBLEMS THEY INCUR DUE TO THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT RECOMPENSE FROM JOHN
  HAUSER OR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE, AND WHO FURTHERMORE
  EFFECTIVELY INDEMNIFY JOHN HAUSER AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
  INSTITUTE (possibly via similar legal notice) AGAINST ALL LOSSES, COSTS, OR
  OTHER PROBLEMS INCURRED BY THEIR CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS DUE TO THE SOFTWARE,
  OR INCURRED BY ANYONE DUE TO A DERIVATIVE WORK THEY CREATE USING ANY PART OF
  THE SOFTWARE.

  The following are expressly permitted, even for commercial purposes:
  (1) distribution of SoftFloat in whole or in part, as long as this and
  other legal notices remain and are prominent, and provided also that, for a
  partial distribution, prominent notice is given that it is a subset of the
  original; and
  (2) inclusion or use of SoftFloat in whole or in part in a derivative
  work, provided that the use restrictions above are met and the minimal
  documentation requirements stated in the source code are satisfied.