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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>,
	Bug-coreutils@gnu.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Brandon Casey" <drafnel@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:12:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908151312o6a43416el27965c4b0ab8d83d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e8340490908151302y33a97d50t38ad0a8a788f1cee@mail.gmail.com>

2009/8/15 Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>:
> coreutils is licensed under GPLv3, and git under GPLv2 (only), so
> you'd need permission from all contributors to the implementation in
> order to relicense under GPLv3. A quick grep of the history suggests
> these contributors to be:


X11 also requires a fast SHA1 implementation.  It uses this to check
if two pixmaps are the same.  So it would be really nice to relicense
under a liberal enough license that xorg can use it.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-15 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 23:25 Linus' sha1 is much faster! Pádraig Brady
2009-08-15 20:02 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-08-15 20:12   ` John Tapsell [this message]
2009-08-15 20:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-15 20:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-17  1:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-26 11:39           ` Pádraig Brady
2017-04-20 21:35             ` galt
2017-04-20 21:38             ` galt
2009-08-17  8:22         ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-08-16  0:06     ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-16 19:25 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-08-16 20:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-16 22:15     ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-08-16 22:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-17  1:53   ` Pádraig Brady
2009-08-17 10:51     ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-08-17 15:44       ` Steven Noonan
2009-08-17 16:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-17 21:43           ` Steven Noonan
2009-08-17 17:32         ` Giuseppe Scrivano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-17  7:23 George Spelvin
2009-08-17 14:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-17 17:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-17 17:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-17 18:54   ` George Spelvin
2009-08-17 19:34     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-17 23:12       ` George Spelvin

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