From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908151312o6a43416el27965c4b0ab8d83d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3e8340490908151302y33a97d50t38ad0a8a788f1cee@mail.gmail.com>

2009/8/15 Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>:
> coreutils is licensed under GPLv3, and git under GPLv2 (only), so
> you'd need permission from all contributors to the implementation in
> order to relicense under GPLv3. A quick grep of the history suggests
> these contributors to be:


X11 also requires a fast SHA1 implementation.  It uses this to check
if two pixmaps are the same.  So it would be really nice to relicense
under a liberal enough license that xorg can use it.

John