Reed Solomon codes

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Sun Dec 5 17:05:32 UTC 2021


On Sunday, 5 December 2021 at 15:40:19 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 December 2021 at 10:35:35 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> Thanks for doing this work. A side note, the library you 
>> translating from has the GPL license, therefore your D library 
>> needs to be GPL too, I assume. Including GPL parts into Phobos 
>> is not possible as far as I know. Therefore a Dub package make 
>> sense.
>
> When i messaged Henry regarding porting this to D he seemed 
> interested; I'll ask him if he would offer/allow it under 
> another license to potentially include it in phobos. Looking in 
> the FAQ it seems phobos uses the Boost 1.0 license. Is there 
> any other licenses i should offer/ask for?

Yes, Boost 1.0 would be perfect if the coding should be 
integrated into Phobos at some point in time.
For a dub package also MIT and Mozilla is good. (Some companies 
tries to avoid GPL/ LGPL libraries as much as possible).

Kind regards
Andre



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