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andikleen / spooky-c

A C version of Bob Jenkins' spooky hash
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spooky-c: clarify licensing of spooky-c by CC0 license file #7

Closed jtlayton closed 9 years ago

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

I'm making an assumption (based on the comments in the .c file), that Andi intended this code to be released to the public domain. Public domain as a concept however is somewhat ill defined, especially when it comes to different legal jurisdictions.

The creative commons folks however, have a license that is intended to allow for the relenquishment of rights as much as possible in as many jurisdictions as possible. It's called the CC0 public domain dedication.

I'd like to propose clarifying the licensing of spooky-c by putting it under the CC0 license. This patch does that.

That said, if the intent was not to put this code into the public domain, then please do let me know and I'll be happy to respin this patch with the actual license intended.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton jeff.layton@primarydata.com

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

It might be nice to also run this by Ziga Zupanec since he did some work in this code as well, but I'm not sure how to cc someone in a github pull request. I suppose I can try to email him and point him toward the patch...

agiz commented 9 years ago

Hi Jeff.

I have no issue with this pull request. If any of you guys need my sign-off: Signed-off-by: Ziga Zupanec

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

Thanks Ziga! Andi any objections from your end?

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

Andi, ping? Any opinion on the licensing here?

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

Andi, ping again? If your answer is "No, I want to leave the licensing unclear", then that's fine. I'd just appreciate an answer either way...

andikleen commented 9 years ago

Sorry for the late answer. I put a BSD license on the code. I hope that's acceptable for everyone.

jtlayton commented 9 years ago

BSD license sounds great. Thanks!