Re: [boost] Try-out Adler-32 code?

That should be ok then. The RFC states: """The MD5 algorithm is being placed in the public domain for review and possible adoption as a standard."""" So there should be no problem then. I had problems with the code I used was to much of a "derived work", which ment: """License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing the derived work.""" I'm no lawyer but I think you are in the clear then :D Bram On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 04:42 -0400, Daryle Walker wrote:

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Bram Neijt <bneijt@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you made a mistake by using the sample code. I don't think the Boost license can accept the "derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" requirement. I.e. the algorithm is completely free, but the sample code is not. No lawyer either... /$

Henrik Sundberg wrote:
If I understand the mail correctly, he used the sample code to compute some numbers (a lookup table?), but his actual code doesn't contain anything of the sample code. Since these numbers are not specific to the sample code but characteristic to the mathematical properties of MD5, this doesn't make his code a derivative work of the sample code. Sebastian
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Bram Neijt
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Sebastian Redl