daveg wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote:
The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain:
http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out
horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it
was the horrible API that turned me off. I'm not even sure if I ever got a
test program working.
LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy
API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15). Its known for its
compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast. zlib typically
gets 5-8% more compression.
LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception
so that postgresql could use it? What would we need?
Probably a BSD license or a clean room implementation which we could BSD
license.
cheers
andrew
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