Re: [boost] [Reminder][Review] The review of the Boost.Guid library starts today (April 30th)

From: Andy (atompkins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-07 11:07:22

"Christian Henning" <chhenning_at_[hidden]> wrote in
news:949801310705041848i4d355ec4oc17cc9b991651fe0_at_[hidden]: 

> Hi there, here my review.
>> - What is your evaluation of the implementation?
> 
> Somebody else on this list was mentioning of a conflicting license
> issue with sha1.hpp. This should be resolved before adding this lib to
> boost.

The sha1 code comes with a license.txt file (included in boost\guid\, I 
could copy this text to sha1.hpp) that contains the following:

Copyright (C) 1998
Paul E. Jones <paulej_at_[hidden]>
All Rights Reserved.

This software is licensed as "freeware."  Permission to distribute
this software in source and binary forms is hereby granted without
a fee.  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING
FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE.

I believe that this allows it to be used in boost.  I do not know for 
sure.  I would value an opinion from someone who is qualified to know for 
sure.

> 
> Same as Dan Nuffer I would like to see a way to change the default
> random number generator.
> 

See another post.

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> Thanks for another useful lib.
> 
> Christian
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