Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-29 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-11-29, Bear Giles wrote: > What are the license issues? I had looked at the legal stuff briefly > but could have easily overlooked it since I was only looking at the > tech note that documents their numerous versions. Section 10 of the current APPNOTE.TXT: 10.1 The Use or Implementati

Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-29 Thread Bear Giles
I've been looking at the strong crypto side of it. I have a test file but the published spec is vague at times (unless you are in windows and can use their crypto library), not a huge hurdle but I've been busy. I should at least submit a patch that recognizes the four addl block types even if we

Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-29 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-11-29, dam6923 . wrote: > I'm looking for the encryption that Windows XP provides for ZIP files. > I believe it's the old, lame, encryption. Is that correct? TBH, I have no idea. You may be able to tell by looking at the general purpose bit of an encrypted entry. Bit 0 would be set whe

Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-29 Thread dam6923 .
I'm looking for the encryption that Windows XP provides for ZIP files. I believe it's the old, lame, encryption. Is that correct? Right now I'm working with http://sevenzipjbind.sourceforge.net/ and it fits the bill but is a bit clunky. Is that something that could be accepted into ASF? As alw

Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-11-29, dam6923 . wrote: > Is there any policy in place or method already laid out for putting > bounties on certain task items? In particular, I could chip something > in for the following two tickets: What Phil said. > 1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-88 > 2) https://i

Re: [Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-28 Thread Phil Steitz
On 11/28/13, 9:26 PM, dam6923 . wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any policy in place or method already laid out for putting > bounties on certain task items? You are obviously free to do whatever you want as an individual or as part of $dayjob or other means to connect people wanting to get paid to w

[Compress] Hiring Coder

2013-11-28 Thread dam6923 .
Hello, Is there any policy in place or method already laid out for putting bounties on certain task items? In particular, I could chip something in for the following two tickets: 1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-88 2) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-238 Both are