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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:55:33 +0300
To: "Martin Alterisio" <malterisio777@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>, "Solar Designer" <solar@openwall.com>, 
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References: <20071209010552.GA12561@openwall.com> <476B0872.3060408@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] faster & public domain MD5 implementation
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

isn't "public domain" specific enough?

On 12/21/07, Martin Alterisio <malterisio777@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/12/20, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>:
> >
> > > Attached is a quick patch for PHP 5.2.5 that replaces RSA's copyrighted
> > > implementation of MD5 with my public domain one:
> > >
> > >
> > http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/popa3d/popa3d/md5/
> >
> > Tried that one and it is about 30% faster indeed (on md5-only benchmark,
> > 32-bit Linux on AMD Opteron. Anybody objects to accepting this?
> >
> >
> Just one, but is a mere formality. I didn't see any copyright notice on the
> code nor a licensing document attached. I have not much of the legal
> mumbo-jumbo comprehension, so, correct me if I'm wrong, shouldn't external
> code that's to be included in the php codebase meet these legal formalities
> so it doesn't become a liability?
>
> That's all.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Martin Alterisio
>
> PS: Does anyone knows if using a nickname for authorship is considered
> legally valid? I believe it might be valid, think about writers that use
> such pseudonyms, but I'm not sure...
>


-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/