On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That said, I don't know if the MPL is ok for X11. I've not looked at > compatibility issues with MPL. For git, we could just ignore the MPL, > since the GPLv2 was acceptable regardless of it. If MPL isn't ok for X11, then we'd need to make sure that even the silliest Mozilla crud has been rewritten. There really isn't much, but hey, the _history_ is based on the mozilla code, and who knows - the 'blk_SHA_CTX' struct has things like the fields in the same order as the Mozilla equivalent, for all those historical reasons. (Heh. Looking at that, I probably should move the 'size' field first, since that would have different alignment rules, and the struct would be more tightly packed that way, and initialize better). Afaik, none of the actual code remains (the mozilla SHA1 thing did the wrong thing for performance even for just the final bytes, and did those a byte at a time etc, so I rewrote even the trivial SHA1_Final parts). Of course, maybe the Mozilla people would be interested in taking my faster version, and say that the new-BSD license is ok, and make everybody happy. The only listed author for the Mozilla SHA1 is Paul Kocher. I added him to the Cc. Paul, for your information, we're talking about a faster rewritten "mostly portable" SHA1 routines that you can find at http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=block-sha1;hb=pu (follow the "blob" pointers to see sha1.c and sha1.h). I don't know if you're active with Mozilla/Firefox or whether you even care, but you seem to be the logical choice of person to ask. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html