CVS update: samba/source/lib

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

yes.  i just asked john erickson at dr dobb's.  messages attached.

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > crc32 algorithm.  obtained from dr dobb's journal
> > http://www.ddj.com/ftp/1992/1992.05/crcman.zip.
> > copyright 1992 mark r nelson.
> 
> do you have permission to include it in Samba? Is it declared as
> public domain? If not then you better take it out again.


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>From lkcl at switchboard.net Wed Oct  7 16:14:50 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:23:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at switchboard.net>
To: Jon Erickson <jerickson at ddj.com>
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jon Erickson wrote:

> 
> Hi Luke,
> Got your message. What question did you have re: copyright?
> If you want to use code that appeared in the magazine, feel
> free to. That is what it is there for. We only ask that you
> give credit to the original programmer. Does this answer
> your question?

yes it does: who was the original programmer?  no name is given in
crcman.c.  i will put "copyright author 1992" on it, and the dr dobb's URL
to obtain the original.

luke

>From lkcl at switchboard.net Wed Oct  7 16:15:00 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:40:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at switchboard.net>
To: Jon Erickson <jerickson at ddj.com>
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's

thank you!

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jon Erickson wrote:

> Luke,
> The article you are referring to is by Mark Nelson, and comes from
> the May 1992 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
> 
> FILE VERIFICATION USING CRC
> 
> 32-bit cyclical redundancy check
> 
> This article contains the following executables: CRCMAN.ARC
> 
> Mark R. Nelson
> 
> At least I think this is the article.
> Jon Erickson
>