On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Stephen Watt wrote:
1) It appears most folks are using LZO. Given that it is GPL, are
you not
worried about it virally infecting your project ?
The lzo bindings are not part of Hadoop and therefore can't infect
Hadoop. They are a separate project (hadoop-gpl-compression) that
depends on lzo and Hadoop. Hadoop-gpl-compression is distributed under
the GPL, which satisfies lzo's licensing. That said, there is an
effort underway to make bindings for one of the fast ASL-friendly
codecs.
-- Owen
