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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
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John Tapsell |
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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster! |
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:12:58 +0100 |
2009/8/15 Bryan Donlan <address@hidden>:
> 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
Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/08/16