my small hashlib - using pythons hash-functions

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mathias Panzenboeck wrote:

> But the question is: *IS* this derived work? I mean, it's not copied code.
> It's the same hashing-logic, which I learned by watching pythons code.

given that it's only a few lines of code, and there's hardly any other 
way to write those lines if you want to implement the same algorithm, 
I'd say it falls under "fair use".  crediting the Python developers in 
the source code should be good enough.

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