| From: | "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PGSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New CRC algorithm: Slicing by 8 |
| Date: | 2006-10-20 05:56:48 |
| Message-ID: | 65937bea0610192256p95c7680xd506c755704cc7ee@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10/20/06, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> It doesn't say anything about
> being free of patents though.
>
> The Sourceforge project referred to in the article (but for which no
> link is given) seems to be this one:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/slicing-by-8
Yes. I had already mentioned that link in my posts.
The "files" section contains a zip archive, inside which there are three
> source files all of which state that the package, which is (c) Intel
> Corp. 2004-2006, is released under the BSD license, with this URL:
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html
>
> Again, no mention of patents anywhere.
I'll try to get in touch with the author and get the clarification.
Best regards,
--
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