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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-13 16:51:12 -0400
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-13 16:51:12 -0400
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-This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error correction code".
+This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error
+correction code".
-You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or,
-at your option, any later version. You may use this package under the
-Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. (You may choose to use
-this package under the terms of either licence, at your option.) See the file
-COPYING.GPL for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. See
-the file COPYING.TGPPL.html for the terms of the Transitive Grace Period
-Public Licence, version 1.0.
+You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version
+2 or, at your option, any later version. You may use this package
+under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. (You
+may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence,
+at your option.) See the file COPYING.GPL for the terms of the GNU
+General Public License, version 2. See the file COPYING.TGPPL.html for
+the terms of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0.
-The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5 algorithm which
-makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one hard drive, the stored
-data can be completely recovered. The algorithm in the zfec package has a
-similar effect, but instead of recovering from the loss of only a single
-element, it can be parameterized to choose in advance the number of elements
-whose loss it can tolerate.
+The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5
+algorithm which makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one
+hard drive, the stored data can be completely recovered. The algorithm
+in the zfec package has a similar effect, but instead of recovering
+from the loss of only a single element, it can be parameterized to
+choose in advance the number of elements whose loss it can tolerate.
-This package is largely based on the old "fec" library by Luigi Rizzo et al.,
-which is a mature and optimized implementation of erasure coding. The zfec
-package makes several changes from the original "fec" package, including
-addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C API to support zero-copy
-operation, a few clean-ups and optimizations of the core code itself, and the
-addition of a command-line tool named "zfec".
+This package is largely based on the old "fec" library by Luigi Rizzo
+et al., which is a mature and optimized implementation of erasure
+coding. The zfec package makes several changes from the original "fec"
+package, including addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C
+API to support zero-copy operation, a few clean-ups and optimizations
+of the core code itself, and the addition of a command-line tool named
+"zfec".