On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:17:05 -0800, Jerry wrote:
>In article <slr### [at] fwicom>, ron### [at] povrayorg 
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:36:36 +0100, Alessandro Coppo wrote:
>>>*) Mersenne Twister, currently the best known
>>>http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html,  period is 2**19937-1 it's
>>>not a typo... about 10**6000!!!
>>
>>We can't use this one at this time as its license is GPL.
>
>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.

True.  It would only be infringement to use the posted code.

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