[7296] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Commercial use of code from the sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Jun 9 00:35:44 1999
To: Chuck_Bueche@Dell.com
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 11:36:51 -0500."
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:35:40 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Chuck_Bueche@Dell.com wrote:
>I'm looking for a quick source for a public-domain CRC algorithm, with
>source code.
[...]
>What are the restrictions on the code in the sipb locker, as they pertain to
>this situation?
The "md5", "cksum", and "fingerprint" programs which are installed
in the sipb locker do seem to be public domain. A bit of digging
suggests that they came from volume 28 of the comp.sources.unix
archives. You can pick up this from several places. Perhaps try:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume28/fingerprint/
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume28/fingerprint/
The package is credited to:
This is the fingerprint 0.75 package, gamma.
940205
Daniel J. Bernstein, djb@silverton.berkeley.edu.
and the documenmtation has many instances of
"Placed into the public domain by Daniel J. Bernstein."
sprinkled throughout it. IANAL, but this has a reasonable chance
of being useful to you.
Sincerely,
Jacob Morzinski
MIT SIPB
