Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!

["George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>]

>> The purpose of the rewrite is to avoid having to make
>> pessimistic assumptions about people who don't respond.
>> 
>> I suppose I should have made that request clearer:
>> Is there anyone who claims copyright on anything here?
>> Or would just like credit?
>> If so, are you willing to donate it to the public domain?

> I think this is much nicer to everyone involved.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, I'm OK with giving any small copyright I might 
> have in this SHA1 implementation, if any, to the public domain.  
> Credits are always nice.

My apologies.  I read a lot of people talking about wanting the code
under different licenses, and thought I'd just cut through it by
providing some PD code.

I didn't turn around and look at it from the point of view of the
people who'd put the work into developing it.  I don't mean to deny
anyone credit for their work.  In fact, providing more detail is on
the to-do list, but I haven't waded through the mail archives and
tracked down who contributed what yet.

I'll work on those polish details once I have it producing the same
assembly code as Linus'.

There are a lot of possible highly-permissive licenses if one is wanted
(zlib, MIT, CC-by), but public domain seems simpler.