I've been a big fan of probabilistic filters such as Bloom , and (more so) Cuckoo filters for a while now. I've put them to great use in my personal projects, as well as in major data processing projects at work. They fall into a neat class of data structures that let you trade certainty for performance.
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For basically as long as I can remember, I have been a staunch defender of permissive licenses over the more copyleft variety. I want you to use things I've written. On top of that I don't believe it's my place to force you to then open source things you have written that expand upon my source code. Hence my extensive…