I asked the author of the QuickLZ algorithm about licensing... Sounds like he is willing to cooperate. This is what I got from him:
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 17:56, Lasse Reinhold <l...@quicklz.com> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > That sounds really exciting, I'd love to see QuickLZ included into > PostgreSQL. I'd be glad to offer support and add custom optimizations, > features or hacks or whatever should turn up. > > My only concern is to avoid undermining the commercial license, but this > can, as you suggest, be solved by exceptionally allowing QuickLZ to be > linked with PostgreSQL. Since I have exclusive copyright of QuickLZ any > construction is possible. > > Greetings, > > Lasse Reinhold > Developer > http://www.quicklz.com/ > l...@quicklz.com > > On Sat Jan 3 15:46 , 'Stephen R. van den Berg' sent: > > PostgreSQL is the most advanced Open Source database at this moment, it is > being distributed under a Berkeley license though. > > What if we'd like to use your QuickLZ algorithm in the PostgreSQL core > to compress rows in the internal archive format (it's not going to be a > compression algorithm which is exposed to the SQL level)? > Is it conceivable that you'd allow us to use the algorithm free of charge > and allow it to be distributed under the Berkeley license, as long as it > is part of the PostgreSQL backend? > -- > Sincerely, > Stephen R. van den Berg. > > Expect the unexpected! > ) > > -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
