On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2012 08:15 PM, Johan Tibell wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Dmitry Kulagin >> <dmitry.kula...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Clark, Johan, thank you! That looks like perfect solution to the problem. >> >> Clean-room reimplementation merged and released as 0.5.2.0. >> > > Not even a little bit clean-room: he posted the source code that he was > going to reimplement like two hours earlier, and had obviously read it.
Clean-room was clearly a bit over enthusiastic. He said he didn't use the other code as a reference but instead the bithacks reference, which is public domain. I'm comfortable enough with this. I wasn't particularly worried about the prior implementation either, as it don't think (as a non-lawyer) that it will hold up as copyrightable in court due to its trivial nature and the presence of prior art (this is a standard bit-twiddling algorithm). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe