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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> 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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.Received on 2003-04-03 02:33:04