Re: Re[4]: [fpc-pascal] TimSort

2011-05-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 May 2011, at 19:53, José Mejuto wrote: > Implementing from paper needs permission to licensing ? Normally not. > Is the algo > copyrighted/patented ? Algorithms cannot be copyrighted. Whether or not it's patented I don't know (while the individual sorting algorithms have been known for

Re[4]: [fpc-pascal] TimSort

2011-05-24 Thread José Mejuto
Hello FPC-Pascal, Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 6:31:56 PM, you wrote: MG> It uses a lot of tricks, but it seems to me that Tim explained all the MG> important things. MG> It would be nice, if thetimsort unit has the same license as the FCL (modified MG> LGPL-2). MG> Maybe you can ask him for permis