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zwegner / faster-utf8-validator

A very fast library for validating UTF-8 using AVX2/SSE4 instructions
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Open dotnwat opened 4 years ago

dotnwat commented 4 years ago

Hey @zwegner this looks really interesting. Would you mind clarifying the license of the validator? I didn't see any mention of this. Or better yet add a LICENSE file to the project?

zwegner commented 4 years ago

Thanks! The validator (z_validate.c) is under the MIT license, which is in the source code, but I haven't added a separate license file yet.

I was deliberately punting on the issue of choosing a license for everything else (namely, the test suite). Generally, I prefer the GPL for most software projects, but for something like this, where it's a small utility that's more or less "done", I'm fine with a more liberal license. I had wanted to keep the option open of using a different license for the tests, but the test script is small enough that I'm not too concerned with it. If anybody really cares about the test suite, let me know.