[bitc-dev] BSD-licensed arbitrary precision library

[David Hopwood]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:50 +0100, David Hopwood wrote:
>>Tom Bachmann wrote:
>>
>>>[...] you state in the release notes that you are looking for a bsd
>>>  licensed arbitrary precision integer math library.
>>
>>OpenSSL's 'bn' library (http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/bn.html) is
>>easily separable from the rest of OpenSSL.
> 
> Close, but no cigar. Eric Young's intransigence on the advertising
> clause has been a festering problem for a lot of projects.
> 
> As it happens, I already have pretty good implementations of bignum add,
> divide, subtract. What I need is a good divide algorithm. It's not that
> hard to do, but it's a nuisance.

IMath <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sting/sw/imath/> is licensed as
BSD-without-advertising-clause. I have no experience with it.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>