>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> None. Although http://cr.yp.to/cdb/cdb.txt is Copyright 1996
Jan> D. J. Bernstein, I'm pretty sure that that copyright does
Jan> not apply to an implementation based on reading the
Jan> description.
As long as you didn't copy any code, you're fine. Copyright does not
apply to implementation (that's what patent is for).
Jan> And it isn't really the distribution that refuses to support
Jan> it.
Exactly. It's that without upstream support from Sleepycat (or
anybody; it's free software so anybody---including Red Hat or
Debian---could adopt it), you just can't rely on the implementation
that systems running Coda might have available.
The default hash function in this version of db is the
Fowler/Vo/Noll hash which gives better distributions (less
collisions) on average than the publicly released version.
Ooh, that's really bad. No cross-platform compatibility.
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