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@StefanKarpinski The article is licensed under CPOL, not the code. Railgun is licenseless, one developer working for Mozilla advised me to put it under BSD or

@StefanKarpinski The article is licensed under CPOL, not the code. Railgun is licenseless, one developer working for Mozilla advised me to put it under BSD or public domain - which is guess what: just another license, all my etudes/tools/functions are 100% FREE, not as pseudo-copylefters understand and try to sell their "Free" - which is ridiculous, especially the free beer part, if I am to share my joy with my buddies I buy beers and give them for free UNCONDITIONALLY. The bottom-line: Railgun is people's choice 'memmem', if you ever face the possibility to go to jail, just call me I will tell the judges some copyleft sagas of my own, that is to educate them how university professors are funded with people's money (not only) and any derivate of those algorithms/implementations should follow the same licenselessness - a nifty word - everything else is just one perverted game for money, as I like to say hypocrisy in action. Regards to all, and no, my endless dumps are not to obstruct the usage, quite the contrary - to provide field feedback - to give thorough comparisons, had I had more than one computer I would have dumped several times more stats. Best, Georgi

StefanKarpinski 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. The algorithm is very clever and the performance quite impressive. It would be great if the legal status of the code were clearer so that there was more chance of it making its way into usage by people. Saying that the code is "free" in an article is not really sufficiently clear to alleviate legal concerns people might have. The word "license" is never mentioned anywhere in the page, while the code project version [1] appears to state that the article and its code are under the very unfortunate CPOL. If you want to make this code public domain – which is great, btw – then I recommend that you put it up on GitHub (or BitBucket, or something) with a LICENSE.md file that explicitly states that it is "public domain". Use that phrase verbatim – it will greatly alleviate the uncertainty and doubt about its legal status. Thanks for the cool algorithm. p.s. I fully agree that code from publicly funded academic work should be open source – ideally under a very liberal license like BSD or MIT. [1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-like-function-in-C http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-li...

StefanKarpinski 13y ago

Thanks for the clarification. The algorithm is very clever and the performance quite impressive. It would be great if the legal status of the code were clearer so that there was more chance of it making its way into usage by people. Saying that the code is "free" in an article is not really sufficiently clear to alleviate legal concerns people might have. The word "license" is never mentioned anywhere in the page, while the code project version [1] appears to state that the article and its code are under the very unfortunate CPOL. If you want to make this code public domain – which is great, btw – then I recommend that you put it up on GitHub (or BitBucket, or something) with a LICENSE.md file that explicitly states that it is "public domain". Use that phrase verbatim – it will greatly alleviate the uncertainty and doubt about its legal status. Thanks for the cool algorithm. p.s. I fully agree that code from publicly funded academic work should be open source – ideally under a very liberal license like BSD or MIT. [1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-like-function-in-C http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-li...