Jerry <jer### [at] acusdedu> wrote:
: I saw the Mersenne Twister described in the latest WebTechniques. It 
: looked pretty simple. GPL is a copyright, not a patent, as far as I 
: know. Though I am not a lawyer, I'm pretty sure that recoding from an 
: English description would not infringe on a copyright.

  It think that the problem with GPL is not that you can't use the source
code (all the contrary, GPL requires that the source code is available
and usable). The problem is that if you use the source code, the new code
you make must be GPL as well.

  LGPL would be different.

-- 
char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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