Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Oct 9, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I took the liberty of replacing the MD4 and MD5 implementations in apr-util with the ones from dovecot (written originally by Solar Designer and put in the public domain). They took a bit of adaption to not break the ABI or change the API. The

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Oct 16, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Jeffrey Thompson wrote: "Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/16/2006 03:44:20 PM: On Oct 16, 2006, at 3:38 AM, Joe Orton wrote: An argument has been made that the third-party MD4/MD5 code in APR (specifically, APR-util) is licensed such that it is not

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:48:05PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Colm MacCarthaigh > > | I hate these damn things, alerting us to these stupid nits only causes > | any theoritical infringement to become willful and over time worsens our > | code-base. Anyway, our time would probably be better

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colm MacCarthaigh | I hate these damn things, alerting us to these stupid nits only causes | any theoritical infringement to become willful and over time worsens our | code-base. Anyway, our time would probably be better spent just asking | RSA for a slightly modified license. I'm no happier f

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:07:45PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Note also that even if copyright law works that way in jurisdictions > you are familiar with, there's no guarantee it works that way in every > jurisdiction. Better safe than sorry. IMO, at least. Copyright law is largely harmoni

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Roy T. Fielding" | On Oct 16, 2006, at 3:38 AM, Joe Orton wrote: | | > An argument has been made that the third-party MD4/MD5 code in APR | > (specifically, APR-util) is licensed such that it is not | > permissible to distribute modified works. | | AIUI, copyright law has separate restrictio

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Could we get confirmation of this interpretation? Did the person who made that argument substantiate it? This was included in a prior message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Tollef Fog Heen: For those who don't know me, I'm one of the Debian Ap

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Oct 16, 2006, at 3:38 AM, Joe Orton wrote: An argument has been made that the third-party MD4/MD5 code in APR (specifically, APR-util) is licensed such that it is not permissible to distribute modified works. AIUI, copyright law has separate restrictions on "to make ... derivative works"

Re: Adding sysinfo to the APR

2006-10-16 Thread Graham Leggett
Mladen Turk wrote: I wish to add the things we have inside tomcat-native to the APR (with more generic API) for obtaining various OS infos in a portable way. All that is available for a multiple platforms (linux, solaris, macosx, windows). IMHO, something like that can be very usable with a

Re: DBD: getting names of table columns

2006-10-16 Thread Ryan Phillips
Graham Leggett wrote: Ryan Phillips wrote: I believe you want the apr_dbd_get_name() function. I see this is in trunk only, is this correct? That is correct. -ryan

Re: DBD: getting names of table columns

2006-10-16 Thread Graham Leggett
Ryan Phillips wrote: I believe you want the apr_dbd_get_name() function. I see this is in trunk only, is this correct? Regards, Graham -- smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

RE: Windows Registry and other similar repositories

2006-10-16 Thread David Horowitz
Thanks William for the link, and Mladen for the thought for the community. David > -Original Message- > From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:52 PM > To: David Horowitz > Cc: 'APR Developer List' > Subject: Re: Windows Registry a

Re: Windows Registry and other similar repositories

2006-10-16 Thread Mladen Turk
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: David Horowitz wrote: Would there be some way in APR to access the Windows Registry, and whatever the analogs would be on other platforms? The code already exists, but I didn't think it really fits into apr since it's an 'anti-portability' feature :) The Win32 reg

Re: Windows Registry and other similar repositories

2006-10-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Horowitz wrote: > > Would there be some way in APR to access the Windows Registry, and whatever > the analogs would be on other platforms? The code already exists, but I didn't think it really fits into apr since it's an 'anti-portability' feature :) See... http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf

Windows Registry and other similar repositories

2006-10-16 Thread David Horowitz
Folks, Would there be some way in APR to access the Windows Registry, and whatever the analogs would be on other platforms? Thanks. David

Adding sysinfo to the APR

2006-10-16 Thread Mladen Turk
Hi, I wish to add the things we have inside tomcat-native to the APR (with more generic API) for obtaining various OS infos in a portable way. Right now, inside tomcat-native we have a set of functions that can obtain: inf[0] - Total usable main memory size inf[1] - Available memory size inf[

Re: Run-time selection of poll implementation

2006-10-16 Thread Joe Orton
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:25:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Joe Orton skrev: > >On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:04:34PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >>Currently, apr chooses whether to use epoll, kqueue, port, select or > >>poll at build-time. This works quite well if your apr library is only

Re: MD4/MD5 implementation is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Joe Orton
An argument has been made that the third-party MD4/MD5 code in APR (specifically, APR-util) is licensed such that it is not permissible to distribute modified works. Could we get confirmation of this interpretation? The license header reads as follows: * Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Securi

Re: Run-time selection of poll implementation

2006-10-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Joe Orton skrev: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:04:34PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Currently, apr chooses whether to use epoll, kqueue, port, select or poll at build-time. This works quite well if your apr library is only used on hosts with the same capabilities as the one you built on. However,

Re: Run-time selection of poll implementation

2006-10-16 Thread Joe Orton
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:04:34PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Currently, apr chooses whether to use epoll, kqueue, port, select or > poll at build-time. This works quite well if your apr library is only > used on hosts with the same capabilities as the one you built on. > However, if you buil