[gNewSense-users] Copyright question about net/irda/irqueue.c

[Bake Timmons]

What do you think of this excerpt of a license comment for
net/irda/irqueue.c ? 

 *     This copyright does however _not_ include the ELF hash() function
 *     which I currently don't know which licence or copyright it
 *     has. Please inform me if you know.

The function hash(), which I have included below, does not amount to
much, but I do *not* think it is trivial enough to escape needing a
copyright.  What do you think?

/*
 * Function hash (name)
 *
 *    This function hash the input string 'name' using the ELF hash
 *    function for strings.
 */
static __u32 hash( const char* name)
{
        __u32 h = 0;
        __u32 g;

        while(*name) {
                h = (h<<4) + *name++;
                if ((g = (h & 0xf0000000)))
                        h ^=g>>24;
                h &=~g;
        }
        return h;
}