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Subject: Re: YASP: Yet Another Scalable Protocol
From: Francisco Castro
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:50:19 -0300

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:00:27 -0800 (PST)
Scott Dattalo <scott@dattalo.com> wrote:

> I saw the CRC-16 and was going to suggest using the 17-cycle algorithm
> that I wrote - and I saw that you already included it!

yes, your crc code have a big impact on the current speed & size of the
YASP implementation :)
 
> Two things:
> 
> 1) Realize that the CRC16 code is not released under GPL. In fact
>    it's not release under any license. You're perfectly within 
>    you're rights to use it here. But someone else is perfectly
>    within their rights using it as well.
> 
> 2) You don't attribute the source :). This makes it more difficult
>    for someone to different the GPL'd versus non GPL'd portions
>    of your project.

I'm sorry.. that was never my intention :) It's fixed now, i put the
crc16 code in a separate file and included a COPYING.crc16 file. I'm
uploading just now the new .tgz.
 
Francisco
 

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