Horton

Re: Proposal for Updating CRC32C with AVX-512 Algorithm.

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

View thread
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "Amonson, Paul D" <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash.shankaran@intel.com>
Date: 2024-06-25T17:48:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →

  1. Compute CRC32C using AVX-512 instructions where available

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 05:41:12PM +0000, Amonson, Paul D wrote:
> > It would be good to know exactly what, if any, changes the Intel
> > lawyers want us to make to our license if we accept this patch.
>
> I asked about this and there is nothing Intel requires here license
> wise. They believe that there is nothing wrong with including Clause-3
> BSD like licenses under the PostgreSQL license. They only specified
> that for the source file, the applying license need to be present
> either as a link (which was previously discouraged in this thread)
> or the full text. Please note that I checked and for this specific
> Chromium license there is not SPDX codename so the entire text is
> required.

Okay, that is very interesting.  Yes, we will have no problem
reproducing the exact license text in the source code.  I think we can
remove the license issue as a blocker for this patch.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
  EDB                                      https://enterprisedb.com

  Only you can decide what is important to you.