Allowable licenses for reimplementations of Murmur2 and murmur3

[wclodius2]

I am involved in a project to create a standard library for modern fortran, https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib. I would like to add two modules providing collections of 32 and 64 bit hash functions, respectively. I would like to include implementations of the Murmur3 and Murmur2 functions in the pertinent modules. The library is currently released under the MIT license. Because the algorithm is released into the public domain, can an implementation be released under the MIT license? If not can the files be marked as public domain when separated from the rest of the library? If in any case it can be distributed, do you have standard boiler plate to be distributed with the code?

[aappleby]

If you're in the US, then you can consider all of the MurmurHash / SMHasher stuff public domain.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:36 PM William B. Clodius [email protected] wrote:

I am involved in a project to create a standard library for modern fortran, https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib. I would like to add two modules providing collections of 32 and 64 bit hash functions, respectively. I would like to include implementations of the Murmur3 and Murmur2 functions in the pertinent modules. The library is currently released under the MIT license. Because the algorithm is released into the public domain, can an implementation be released under the MIT license? If not can the files be marked as public domain when separated from the rest of the library? If in any case it can be distributed, do you have standard boiler plate to be distributed with the code?

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