Hi all,
Michael Kounavis has given a green signal (please refer the forwarded message).
Best regards,
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From: Kounavis, Michael E <michael.e.kounavis@intel.com >
Date: Oct 20, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: RE: CRC algorithm, Slicing By 8; concerns about patents infringements
To: Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>, Michael Kounavis < mekounav@users.sourceforge.net>
Hi,
Thank you for your interest on Slicing-by-8. No. Intel decided not to file a patent on this algorithm but to make it freely available under BSD license. You should have no problem using it.
MIke
From: Gurjeet Singh [mailto:singh.gurjeet@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:50 AM
To: Michael Kounavis
Subject: CRC algorithm, Slicing By 8; concerns about patents infringements
Hi Michael,
Please refer the following post, and the conversation that followed:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01015.php
As is evident form that post, I have used the source code provided by you on sf.net, and modified it to suit PostgreSQL.
Now the community is concerned if we will be infringing any patents. We all understand that that you (on behalf of Intel) have released the algorithm, and the code, under BSD license, which allows anybody to use it commercially, but we need assurance that we will not be infringing any patents owned by Intel by including your algorithm in PostgreSQL, because PostgreSQL is used/sold by many companies for profit.
Best regards,
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