gnupic: Re: Yet Another Scalable Protocol
Subject:
Re: YASP: Yet Another Scalable Protocol
From:
Francisco Castro ####@####.####
Date:
14 Jan 2003 15:56:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20030114125019.27b8cd59.frank@thinbox.com.ar>
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:00:27 -0800 (PST)
Scott Dattalo ####@####.#### 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
