[Savannah-register-public] [task #10138] Submission of Swiss army knife of file signature checksum tool

[Tong Sun]

Follow-up Comment #2, task #10138 (project administration):

Thanks to your reply, Mario.

I'll use the win/md5.c file, the public domain one, as per your suggestion. 

> In GNU Savannah we host only GPL-compatible (With
any present or future version) material

I saw "Modified BSD License" is still an option. Would it be OK to release my
project as "Modified BSD License"? Reason follows. 

As for crc32.c, the zlib crc32 function *can't be used directly* since it is
using the 0xFFFFFFFF pre & post condition -- 
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/ogg-dev/2008-February/000803.html
However, I've found a good alternative, even faster than zlib's --
Slicing-by-8 CRC32 Implementation
http://www.slapmahfro.net/news.php?2009-11

However, there is no copyright and licensing info in source. I've written to
the author since, but haven't get reply yet:

From: Tong Sun <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Subject: Your Slicing-by-8 CRC32 Implementation
To: address@hidden

Hi Brian,

I'd like to borrow your Slicing-by-8 CRC32 Implementation and use it in my
open source project, which is pending to be hosted on http://www.nongnu.org/.
(my current one there is http://www.nongnu.org/qdiff/).

I need your written permission in doing so, and your copyright and licensing
info as well.

Moreover, I don't know how much your code depends on Intel's Implementation.
I mean, I took a look at their copyright and licensing:

 * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Intel Corporation - All Rights Reserved
 *
 * This software program is licensed subject to the BSD License,
 * available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html

and hope you release your code in BSD License as well.

Thanks


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