From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Spelvin" Subject: Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster! Date: 17 Aug 2009 19:12:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20090817231208.32039.qmail@science.horizon.com> References: Cc: art.08.09@gmail.com, bdonlan@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, johnflux@gmail.com, P@draigBrady.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: linux@horizon.com, nico@cam.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 18 01:12:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdBNC-0000tK-CT for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:12:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752497AbZHQXMI (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:12:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752441AbZHQXMI (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:12:08 -0400 Received: from science.horizon.com ([71.41.210.146]:13924 "HELO science.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752336AbZHQXMH (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:12:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 32040 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Aug 2009 19:12:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> 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.