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Interesting hash! I have a question about the licensing: If I implement the algorithm from the specification, is my implementation obliged to use the 1BSD lic

Interesting hash! I have a question about the licensing: If I implement the algorithm from the specification, is my implementation obliged to use the 1BSD license? It is impossible to implement the algorithm without also reading the reference implemmentation.

kazinator 4y ago
Sorry about the lack of key details in the spec; I will improve it to avoid referring to the reference implementation. A reimplementation isn't obliged to use the license; it is your original expression and copyright. Any similarities are coincidental due to the convergence of expression caused by implementing the same, very specific procedure.
- kseistrup 4y ago
  Thank you so much. So here's a Python implementation: https://codeberg.org/kas/jphash https://codeberg.org/kas/jphash
  - kazinator 4y ago
    The specification now details the eight cases for combining the pieces into the output string.
    - kseistrup 4y ago
      That looks really great!
      - kazinator 4y ago
        There is now a Firefox add-on in the firefox/ subdirectory. This provides a toolbar button which will replace the content of the current input field with the JP-Hash of its current contents. The keyboard shortcut for that action is Alt-J.
  - kseistrup 4y ago
    PS: It's not a problem per se that one has to look up the words in the reference implementation(s). It must be a PITA to write a specification that enables anyone to write an independent implementation. It would only be a problem if using the MORA from the reference implementation obliged every implementation to use the 1BSD license.