I just committed Doug Lea's malloc implementation to 7.7 to be used foremost on Windows since the OS malloc sucks there.
I hope there shouldn't be any legalese complication with this. It's been put in the public domain through http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain.
the only legalese problem i can see is that it is generally assumed that the whole of the pike code is owned by IDA.
public domain grants you unlimited use, but it does not give you the right to claim that you actually own the code (and could thus prevent others from using it)
however, i believe that this is not the first time that other code is incorporated in this way, so i assume that this is accepted practice, and then it is just a matter of clearly documenting the origin and ownership.
greetings, martin.
Ok, I've updated the COPYRIGHT file. Are there other places that needs to be updated?
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